Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disoriented youth that the trauma goes deepest. Virtually every family counts at least one member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
...research budget on the search for new knowledge and not enough on harnessing the knowledge already gained. Now every major federal science agency, from the National Institutes of Health to NASA, is experimenting with or proposing some form of "directed research" to meet social needs. This is a historic shift for science -- one that portends more planning and accountability than in the past. For the first time, science will be driven more by its consumers than its products...
Among Christians inspired by feminism, especially in English-speaking countries, a threshold was crossed last week; but the broader cultural shift has been occurring for decades and is fast gaining momentum. In permitting the ordination of women, the Church of England joined a transformation that has altered other Protestant denominations since the early 1950s and that has already been embraced by the independent Anglican churches of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S., with Australia almost certain to take the step this week...
...Harvard's most anal, becomes the fourth choice, behind Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop, of the final-club set. First-years who want to live in "liberal" houses stand a decent chance of getting into either Adams and Dunster. And Mather joins Kirkland as an annex to the MAC. Stereotypes shift around, but they still exist...
...threw its support behind the Task Force definition, saying the stricter standards would shift the focus of Ad Board investigations from the victim to the perpetrator...