Word: shifts
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Clinton and his advisers knew immediately that O'Grady would cause the country to shift into full hero mode. In the days before the pilot's rescue, the President and his top aides had been resolving the final points of a secretly planned address that would be given from the Oval Office. It was a crucial moment in Clinton's presidency: he was about to change course on fiscal policy, and the surprise move would accommodate Republicans while infuriating congressional Democrats. The speech was planned for the evening of June...
...location of the missile was the result of a shift in defenses recently undertaken by the Bosnian Serbs that had escaped the notice of NATO intelligence. Because it was launched from directly below, the SA-6 was able to hurtle up on the "blind spot" in the underbelly of the F-16's defensive pod, blasting into O'Grady's aircraft with barely 20 seconds' warning and cutting it in half. "We think this was the first time the Serbs fired an SA-6," said an Air Force official. "They waited until just the right moment, and they ambushed...
...defense over the issue of rap. "Obviously," says one senior Warner record executive, "if just Time Warner falls and commits hara-kiri, that will be great for people who hate the company. But it won't do anything to change what kids are exposed to. It will just shift profits from one company to another." Critics respond that this has nothing to do with what may or may not be Time Warner's corporate responsibility for what it purveys...
Calling the Bosnian Serbs "outcasts and international pariahs," the Clinton Administration offered to help redeploy existing peacekeeping forces in Bosnia-a seeming shift in a U.S. policy that heretofore said U.S. ground troops would be used only to enforce a peace treaty among the warring factions or evacuate peacekeepers. With critical voices rising in Congress, Clinton quickly characterized the use of American troops as a "remote, highly unlikely event" that would take place only if peacekeepers needed to be rescued...
...that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader's hand-picked candidate. Kirkland's possible successor may be John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees International Union...