Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walzer painted a dour portrait of the shift towards conservatism...
Walzer argued that the shift towards the right was not caused by an triumph of neo-conservative ideology, but by the failure of liberals to organize their constituency...
...part of an effort to shift the staff towards the business side of the organization, staffers have been asked to try to sell ads to nine or ten businesses if they wish to have an article published, Hopke said...
...institution of marriage underwent a particularly rebellious and dramatic shift when women entered the work force. "People don't have to stay married because of economic forces now," explains Frank Furstenberg Jr., co-author of the 1991 Divided Families and a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying divorce for 20 years. "We're in the midst of trying to renegotiate what the marriage contract is-what men and women are supposed to do as partners." But the chips in these negotiations are often young children, emotionally fragile, economically vulnerable-for despite their work outside...
...enormous. Current welfare policy, for example, pays AFDC benefits only when there is no man in the house, thus fueling divorce and abandonment. And in a broader sense says University of California, Berkeley, sociology professor Arlie Hochschild, author of the landmark study about two-career marriages, The Second Shift, "we do not have a family-friendly society.'' Better day care, plentiful jobs at decent wages, flex- time and job sharing would all help to reduce the stresses on American households, which are overtaxed, overburdened and overwhelmed. And while entering into marriage with the utmost care and deepest consideration can only...