Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most heartening signs of a larger-scale shift in the social and political climate is the surprising failure of the "values" campaign engineered by ideologues like Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff William Kristol. It wasn't family values as such that made people uncomfortable; it was the politization of family values, their enlistment in a rhetoric of intolerance, from which we recoiled. Maybe that "kinder, gentler" ethic that Bush named in 1988 was bigger than he or his speechwriters ever realized...
...nomination. Most party watchers expect Kemp and his fellow progressives to advance their newfangled agenda while wooing the hard right with promises of fealty on family values. With Buchanan, Kemp and possibly Bennett or Robertson crowding the right side of the field, Vice President Dan Quayle can afford to shift more toward the center. Quayle, who keeps a Bush- like foot in nearly all camps, has already begun to moderate his position on abortion, suggesting that Republicans should concentrate on restricting the procedure if they cannot eliminate it altogether...
...still be around. But the stoops of Capitol Hill will have plenty of new welcome mats nonetheless. The notable number of black and Hispanic representatives is in large part a reflection of a strengthened Voting Rights Act, which scissored congressional districts to reflect more accurately America's complexion. The shift prompted Congressional Black Caucus chairman Edolphus Towns to declare this an "unprecedented moment in American history." In fact, a number of Southern states will send black members to the House for the first time since the turn of the century. Among the new faces: North Carolina Democrat Melvin Watt...
...diplomat then spoke of India's shift from a public to private economy and its recent advances in industrialization and agriculture...
...Recognize the dual claims of nationhood within the land that exists between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Realize that little real progress will be made between Israel and her neighbors without a negotiated agreement that grants a gradual shift to autonomy and self-rule for the Palestinians...