Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving to the right on welfare, the Republicans have also forced the White House and congressional Democrats to shift in the same direction. And the movement picked up speed last week. The White House is considering abolition of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Great Society creation that is devoted mostly to problems of the inner cities. Chief of staff Leon Panetta is also promising that the Clinton welfare-reform plan will be revised so that the cost of job training and child care would be covered by cuts in other programs for the poor. "Any welfare proposal...
Kerrey is sincerely disappointed in Gingrich, a Democratic Senator said, because he has watched him shift over the past year from a private enthusiast of entitlement reform to one who accepted the analysis of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, who believes that trying to freeze inflation adjustments in 1985 so angered the elderly lobby that it cost Republicans control of the Senate in 1986. In an interview with TIME, Kerrey would say only that if Gingrich is willing to duck Social Security's problems because they are 25 years away, "don't give any speeches saying how concerned...
Lieberman said the new co-chairs will likely not shift that stance...
...Boston Globe's account is accurate ("Students' World Largely Unshaken by Shift at the Helm," Dec. 1), Rudenstine is badly needed back at the helm...
...Shift on Bosnia...