Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale, New Haven's walled bastion of upper-echelon academia, has several violent, crime- and drug-filled neighborhoods no more than a few paces from many of its classrooms. From one street to the next, there is a sudden shift from heaven to hell...
Lowell House tutor Peter A. Jourdin said that students in the house had commented on the lack of publicity concerning the shift to computerized billing. Jourdin added that his own bills had been "more substantial and frequent" since the change...
However done, intervention would mark the most stunning shift yet from the old doctrine that anything happening within a nation's borders is no business of foreign powers. The fighting in Bosnia and Croatia could be regarded as international, since these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite...
...York Times encouraged the state of California to shift its '92 primaries to the spring, a move that would have effectively ended the nomination process sooner by awarding the biggest enchilada in March, before the South's Super Tuesday...
...Ginza to protest the opening of Japan's closed rice market. With the U.S. and the European Community (except France) now in accord on agricultural products at the gatt talks, Japan must either sign on or risk losing trade access. Moreover, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa has hinted at a shift, warning that Japan "must avoid at all costs those things which might endanger the successful conclusion of the GATT talks...