Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shift toward earlier admissions may actuallyhelp those who are less privileged, says Frank J.Balz, vice president of the National Associationof Independent Colleges and Universities...
...other big cities. But service areas are spotty, and DSL is being sold mainly to small and midsize businesses--at prices as high as $250 a month. But now that the industry has just come up with a technical standard for residential service, many carriers are expected to shift their home DSL efforts into a higher gear. US West already offers consumers DSL service in more than a dozen states, for example, and BellSouth says it will begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before...
...There has been a shift in reliance from the printed word, to that shown on the screen," Broder said...
...little off-kilter, one hopes that it will be honed by the movie's conclusion. But that possibility is obliterated by the new murder mystery plot that takes over in the second half. Whatever credibility the script had up to that point is undermined by the oddity of the shift, making the movie a Quentin Tarantino imitation gone awry; the macabre violence and odd moralistic overtones undercut Grigoris' Robin Hood resonance. After a dramatic moral battle in which Tommy and Griorgis are at each other's throats in a good 10 minutes of suspense, the moment of moralizing...
...shift of just a few hundred feet, less than half a city block, but few things Harvard administrators could have done would have please Harvard's closest neighbors more...