Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least four times a day--and that's just the nine-to-five shift. Better make it six times a day. During peak hours it's worse...
Accordingly, Klinghoffer is no docudrama but rather a stylized, subtle, Rashomon-like retelling of the tragedy. It takes no prisoners, and takes no sides either. On Sellars' voyage, confusion is captain, and perspectives shift like ocean waves. Along with Leon Klinghoffer, truth becomes a casualty. The director has clad the entire cast in anonymous street clothes, and many roles are doubled -- now friend, now foe -- and who can tell the difference...
...budget imposed new levies on executives who receive "in-kind" benefits such as the use of company cars and mobile telephones; private car phones provided by employers will be taxed $356 a year. These measures hardly add up to a change in direction, but they do mark a shift in the tone of policy toward more generosity to the underprivileged and less to the well...
Nonetheless, in the upper reaches of the meritocracy, there have been glints of truth to the "science nerd" generalization. Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search this year, 18 were Asian American. Yet while there are no statistics on the shift among Asian Americans away from the sciences, there is no doubt it is happening. "I can see a difference in those students just two or three years younger than me," says Mark Kuo, 22, a Harvard senior who, along with his two brothers, was a Westinghouse finalist while at the Bronx High School of Science...
...hope that will happen," adds al-Awadi as he notices the wind shift, "but I just don't know." The dark cloud is approaching rapidly, and perhaps in anticipation of its arrival, al-Awadi begins to cough the cough that many suffer whenever they are near where Kuwait burns...