Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Williams, in fact, was known for his notorious obstinacy in always trying to pull the ball, even in the face of Cleveland Indian manager Lou Bourdreau's "Williams Shift." The phrase was truly misplaced. ELI B. RICHLIN '01 April...
...after university officials released the results of university first-year admissions without affirmative action, University of California-Berkeley students held various rallies throughout campus to protest the university's shift to race-blind admissions...
...nurse, fully clad in surgeon's scrubs and clogs, stares blankly at the tracks ahead of her, waiting for the train to take her from Harvard Square to Mass General Hospital for her shift. As the seconds tick away, she realizes that she's humming quietly and tapping her feet to a nearby rhythm. She can't help but turn her head to catch a glance at the musician sitting on the bench several feet to her left. He plays a familiar Stevie Wonder love ballad, one she's heard on the radio from time to time during the morning...
...these issues in a general way over the past couple of years, especially as a first-year, when literary theory seemed to be all the rage. It wasn't until beginning to write a thesis that questions of attitude and method became really engaging, however. I suppose that this shift is not too surprising. If you read and write all day, you'll start to think about reading and writing, and the best way of approaching these activities...
Because Kristine's kindergarten class meetsonly in the mornings, Kirkland had to locate anafternoon day care center. Every weekday at 8:20am, Kirkland drops Kristine off at the EdgerleyKindergarten and then drives to her first shift atHome Depot. She leaves work to pick up Kristine at11 a.m. and plays with her until the YMCA day carecenter opens at 3 p.m. Kirkland returns to HomeDepot for her second shift which lasts until...