Word: shifts
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Some time in late November, the focus in college sports begins to shift from football to basketball. This is especially true in the Ivy League, where the football season ends without playoffs or bowl games...
...funds to the 1996 campaign in which he narrowly defeated challenger James P. Hoffa. The explosive ruling followed guilty pleas last September by three Carey aides, including Michael Ansara, a co-founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard in the 1960s, who admitted to helping shift $95,000 of union dues into Carey's coffers. Carey denies knowing about the illegal acts and vows to fight the disqualification ruling...
...economic recovery in that country, which tends to prop up financial institutions that are saddled with debt. It was billions of dollars in illegal debt that ultimately sank Yamaichi Securities. If the Japanese government is willing to let it go under, it may signal a positive policy shift. And although the Tokyo stock exchange dropped 5 percent on the news, followed closely by drops in Hong Kong and South Korea, it seems Japan's economic woes are unlikely to spread worldwide. The National Association of Business Economists on Monday said the Asian crisis "will probably not have a signficant impact...
...they become deputies [for the INS], this will shift them to even more of a bureaucracy," he says...
...dissenting views and potential challengers. ?He was part of the generation that remembers living in Cuba and feels very strongly about Castro,? says Booth. ?Even though there?s some speculation that younger generation exile politicians will be more moderate, I don?t think there will be a fundamental shift in attitude...