Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign policy, Hagelin calls for maintaining a "scientifically proven peace creating technology." He also supports a shift from a policy-based military aid to a policy "based on exportation of knowledge...
...less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
...Bush has benefited little from the shift as independents moved, perhaps temporarily, to Perot. Voters still see the President's economic policies as failed and have no confidence in his ability to produce prosperity. Only 35% approved of his performance as President; just 23% said he has done well in dealing with the economy...
...important personnel shift involved Susan Thomases, who had nominally been head of Hillary Clinton's personal staff but had annoyed others by sometimes abrasive forays onto their turf. For example, she blamed Stan Greenberg for a poll that included questions about Hillary's liabilities, which had led the pollster to write a memo about "the Hillary problem." Thomases in June was given the powerful but narrowly defined job of campaign scheduler...
...Watt, 47, compares the work he plans to do on behalf of his constituents to a class-action lawsuit. On his agenda: cut the defense budget in half over five years and shift much of that money to domestic priorities; fully fund Head Start; implement universal health care. "Let's send America a message that it's time for a change," Watt tells supporters, "and part of that change is to give...