Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will reiterate long-standing claims that American consumers, not Latin suppliers, fuel the drug wars. To buttress that accusation, the Andean Presidents may even bring up the arrest on drug charges of Washington Mayor Marion Barry. The Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin friends...
...release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis refused to discuss the future of Nagorno-Karabakh, the center of the dispute. Even so, the multifront meeting illustrates a dramatic shift of power from Moscow into the hands of local nationalists...
...debt was the height of fashion during the Roaring Eighties, it has become, just one month into the 1990s, painfully passe. The securities issued by companies that loaded up on leverage to do deals during the '80s are now taking their lumps on Wall Street as investors shift their money to less- indebted companies...
...issue is no longer really apartheid; it is political power. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha explains that the government began to shift away from apartheid when the National Party realized that it was impossible to stem the tide of blacks moving to urban areas in search of employment. "As the economic realities overwhelmed the dream," he says, "so did we come to realize that there were consequences of these policies that were indeed oppressive and humiliating." Bowing to those realities, P.W. Botha scrapped the hated pass laws...
Some people were surprised after the end of the 1988 season when Gicewicz was named the captain for the 1989 squad. First, because he was a nose tackle. On the gridiron, the nose tackle position is about as glamorous as working the drive-thru shift at a local McDonald's. When you talk football, you mean running backs, quarterbacks and wide receivers. Nose tackles just get their uniforms dirty...