Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stake in tomorrow's election is whether the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) will retain its one-vote majority on the city council or if the balance of power will shift to the conservative Alliance for Change...
...after Muslim "safe areas" had fallen to Serbs in July, President Clinton concluded that what a diplomat calls his "muddle through" policy had been a disaster. The Administration thus became more forceful about finding an answer. Then there was a crucial meeting in London that resulted in a shift of authority on the ground from the U.N. to NATO. Finally in August, the Croats launched a scorching offensive on the Serbs in the Krajina region, and the Croat-Bosnian federation attacked the Serbs in northwestern Bosnia. The Bosnian Serbs lost more and more ground, and in late September they were...
...time political liberals and the rapidly shrinking ranks of prominent Democrats are, for the most part, refusing to acknowlege this growing shift. They have assumed the role of reactionaries, taking pot shots at what right-wingers are saying but offering little comparable contributions to the new moral forum...
...shift of 150 votes in the last election would have given non-CCA candidates a majority," said Republican Trumbull...
PERHAPS 50 YEARS FROM NOW, HISTORians will see the O.J. Simpson trial as a significant turning point, marking a shift from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance to true multicultural pluralism in American society. JAMES R. FISHER JR. Tampa, Florida...