Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even America's fading envy of Japan was powerful enough to inspire a 1992 presidential candidate, Ross Perot, who advocated a fundamental shift towards Japanese-style government-industry cooperation in a presidential race dominated by economic issues...
Harvard, in its opposition to the amendedcomplaint, contended that it was merely a stalltactic by the plaintiff to shift the focus of thecase before the close of the discovery process...
Lawyers for the professor's daughter had arguedthat the University failed to secure theapartment's glass sliding door and that theplaintiff was not properly instructed how to lockand secure the door. But attorney Richard J.Riley, who is representing the University,contends that the shift was prompted because earlyevidence discounted these two key claims of theplaintiff...
Harvard, in its opposition to the amendedcomplaint, contended that it was merely a stalltactic by the plaintiff to shift the focus of thecase before the close of the discovery process...
...change to a slightly younger faculty would provide enough funds to pay for "golden handshake" opportunities, as retirement incentives are commonly called. Since a newly tenured professor makes only about one-half of what the most senior one makes, a shift of only one position could make quite a lot of extra money available...