Word: shifts
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...Title VII prevents firms from considering race as a factor in hiring. Created to protect minorities from discrimination, this provision of the Civil Rights Act has therefore not been invoked against affirmative action programs that favor minorities. Affirmative action supporters feared that with political tides in the United States shifting to the right, the Taxman case would give the court the opportunity to codify this shift--eradicating the widespread use of affirmative action policies...
Degas' painting underwent a radical shift during his time in New Orleans; unfortunately, the reproductions of his paintings in the book make that shift less clear. Benfey highlights a pair of paintings to illustrate the change, the photographically realistic A Cotton Office in New Orleans and the much blurrier, Impressionistic Cotton Merchants in New Orleans. Office, as the frontispiece, is the only painting in the book to be reproduced in color. Merchants (visible in full color at the Fogg), like the other well-chosen and well-placed illustrations, is only a small black-and-white reproduction. The loss of color...
Nonetheless, all Gephardt's good works will be tarnished until he tones down his protectionist rhetoric and gets down to dollars and sense. Without such a shift, Gephardt is both hurting his chances at the presidency in 2000 and threatening economic progress at home and abroad well into the millenium...
...Dillane's wary eyes, the weary set of his shoulders, the willed affectlessness of his voice. His Henderson is based on a real British TV journalist named Michael Nicholson, who covered 15 wars in 25 years, and the actor carries the weight of that experience, the need somehow to shift it, most affectingly...
JAMES P. HOFFA Be careful what you wish for. Focus will now shift to him. He can take the heat; can he stand the light...