Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domestic problems. Instead, he will submit modest domestic proposals like last week's warmed-over housing and educational "opportunity" initiative, so that, in the words of one White House official, "nobody can say we don't have a domestic agenda." Still, Bush will try not to let the Democrats shift the national focus to social issues...
...battle plan did call as well, however, for narrowly focused thrusts through the main Iraqi defensive works. Concerned that his troops would get caught in breaches and slaughtered by massed Iraqi artillery firing poison-gas shells, Schwarzkopf ordered a shift in the bombing campaign during the last week to concentrate heavily on knocking out the frontline big guns. The planes succeeded spectacularly, destroying so much Iraqi artillery that its fire was never either as heavy or as accurate as had been feared. Also in the last week, special-operations commandos expanded their activities deep in Iraqi territory. Many additional units...
...second shift for Team East, Weisbrod absorbed a hard blow to the head that knocked him out of the game. For the next few days, he tried to shake off debilitating headaches but couldn't. Something else was wrong...
Charles S. Gilman '92 and Frances J. Pang '91 say they too enjoy being able to spend time together--both are lifeguards at the MAC pool, and they even share a shift together. This duo brings up one problem with being an 'organization couple' with which many would find difficulty sympathizing: Gilman and Pang complain that they "don't even sit on the same side of the pool...
...pleadings fuse into an aria of justified rage and saintly forgiveness toward the limits imposed on her by life and by her loved ones. Abruptly, spectators who were crying with laughter are simply crying, without any sense of being manipulated. The ability to find humor in unlikely places, then shift emotional gears with no machinery showing, makes Simon a great comedist...