Word: shifts
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...After 10 days of wrangling, a new configuration of HR3355 reached the floor and passed, 235 to 195. Changes from the defeated version included a shift in about $2 billion from prevention to enforcement, bringing the total authorization for police hiring and training to $13.5 billion and for prison construction to $9.9 billion, while leaving $5.5 billion for recreational and educational programs designed to steer young people away from crime. Non- monetary provisions included tougher penalties for sex offenders and spouse abusers. Funding for the justice center at Lamar University was deleted. Over all, the bill was $3.3 billion cheaper...
...record, ABC News reported. Fuhrman had testified he found a key piece of evidence being used by the prosecution: a bloody glove on the Simpson estate. Fuhrman's attorney said the decision had nothing to do with the Simpson case but added that his client was unhappy about the shift...
...rule to the entire Gaza strip. Arafat's move came a day after gunmen from the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, killed an Israeli and wounded six others in drive-by shootings in Gaza. The extremists said Arafat's police were already confiscating weapons from Hamas members, a policy shift that TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says is unprecedented and risky. While it may show the Israelis that Arafat is serious about peace, Beyer says, "it's not very popular for Palestinians to arrest Palestinians." And in the short term: "These Hamas people are very dangerous -- it's like...
...President Jack R. Meyer refused to commentyesterday. But he told the Chronicle of HigherEducation earlier this month that a shift ofemphasis is underway at the newlydubbed HarvardPrivate Capital...
...later this week. The latest unofficial head count: supporters appear to be about 10 votes shy of victory. The legislation would fund the hiring of 100,000 cops, build prisons and ban certain types of assault weapons. "It's a close vote ... you don't need a big shift [for it to pass or fail]," says TIME's Washington Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. "I think it's going to pass, ... but I can't back that up with 218 names [a winning tally...