Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pollak said he plans to shift into high gearnext fall when energy levels are higher...
...political and personal life took a dramatic turn in the late 1970s. At that time, an action official named Robert Currie effectively took over the agency, and Betty began dating him. They married in 1988, and some colleagues perceived a shift in Betty Currie's political guidance system. "I cannot help thinking that Bob, who is very liberal politically, has had an influence on Betty and her decisions to become more partisan over the years," says a former co-worker...
...there is a Magna Carta for this new world of electronic finance, a single document that spells out the terms and scope of the revolution that will shift money power away from central bankers and into the hands of consumers, it could be found in "Financial Markets in 2020," a speech delivered in 1993 by Charles Sanford Jr., then CEO of Bankers Trust, to a gathering of economics sachems in Jackson Hole...
Author Arlie Hochschild, who visited 50 families over several years, wrote in Second Shift that sleep-deprived women work an extra month at home each year. More recently, University of Maryland sociologist John Robinson found that mothers still spend about four times as much time with children as fathers do. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, author of The Sacrificial Mother, found that twice as many moms as dads are involved at school. Soccer moms make up a third of soccer coaches. When the real crunch comes, 83% of mothers stay home with a sick child, reading Goodnight Moon endlessly, compared with...
...banks tend to view technology as a profit center. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo offers a checking account that, after an allotted three free calls, charges customers 50[cents] to use its automated-voice-response telephone lines or $1.50 to speak to an agent to shift funds or ask questions. In a study of 470 banks released this month, USPIRG reported a rapid increase in the number of banks that impose a surcharge on noncustomers using their ATMs. Furthermore, bigger banks surcharge more often, and these fees average $1.35 more than small-bank surcharges...