Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kuttner said that the decision to move themagazine's offices from Princeton to Cambridge wasa result of starr's increase teaching load nextyear and a shift of the managerial burden fromReich to Kuttner...
...wandering. The two videos are a matched pair, complementary. They are choreographed like mtv, performed by Road Warriors. The Rodney King video shows cops in the stylized tribal rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting: I have your life under my boot. To look at them last week was to see Americans of both...
...Much of the change in industrial culture -- a rejection of inherited British class-based divisions between managers and workers -- is driven by the great economic power shift of the late 20th century: the rise of Asia. In the 1980s the bosses of Ford in Detroit acknowledged that the Japanese were better at making cars than they were -- and proceeded to remake their company, in part by using Japanese methods. The new forms of organization at Cummaudo's Ford Australia are the result...
...TURNING POINT. Having surrendered to the Japanese, 72,000 gaunt, exhausted U.S. and Filipino troops marched to prison camps on the Bataan peninsula in April 1942. Malnourished and subjected to repeated beatings, 10,000 men died en route. Days after the Bataan Death March began, the tide started to shift for Allied forces. On April 18, 1942, Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle staged a daring aerial raid on Tokyo. Last week surviving raiders gathered in Columbia, S.C., for an annual tribute to the six Americans who died as a result of the attack...
...American soldiers in 1985. Wheaton is serving as investigator for the families of the victims of that crash. "A couple of my old black ops buddies in the Pentagon believe the Pan Am bombers were gunning for McKee's hostage-rescue team," he says. "But they were told to shift the focus of their investigation because it revealed an embarrassing breakdown in security." The FBI says it investigated the theory that McKee's team was targeted and found no evidence to support...