Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another problem with the ending is its abrupt shift to feminism. The authors construct a plot in which the issue of civil rights is entangled with the need to choose the right man. Although Charlie and Ian are always viewed as somewhat manipulative, their attempts to dominate Evelyn remain unquestioned until the final scene...
Soon Castro noticed other signs of a sea change in the way Americans ate, dressed, worked and treated each other. Her impressions resulted in a lead Business story that appeared in TIME last summer. By then Janice was convinced she had uncovered nothing less than a fundamental shift in the national psyche. Once the cover project was under way, Castro and senior correspondent William McWhirter, a Kansas City boy, interviewed a spectrum of Americans across the country...
...life has been the subject of intense fascination among consumer marketers, who have been trying to figure out just how far and wide the movement will go. Somewhere in the Midwest, in fact, is a community of 12,000 people that is serving as a social laboratory of this shift. The townspeople do not know it. No pollsters have knocked on doors. Several new folks in town, however, are not exactly who they seem to be. They are researchers from the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, sent there to soak up everyday life and find out what people are thinking...
...referendum on the future of the U.S.S.R., many Soviets and Americans seem to agree that reform is dead, or at least dying. They cite the troubles besetting perestroika, new limits on glasnost, the growing role of the military and the KGB in domestic politics, and an overall shift to the right. Pessimists talk as though there were only two alternatives: the disintegration of the country or the return of totalitarianism. In fact, while each nightmare scenario is plausible, a third, far happier outcome is still possible. Indeed, it could come about as a result of the interaction between...
Though neither man has much of a chance of winning the nomination, much less unseating Bush, the Democrats welcome their candidacies. The party is desperate to shift attention away from foreign affairs, the President's best suit, back to the domestic issues. A vigorous debate among presidential aspirants is the one way to accomplish that mission. Now that Wilder and Tsongas are entering the field, other candidates with more pull at the polls will be tempted to join them...