Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech continued it became more pointed. She asked, "Do you do enough to make sure your parents, in the old people's homes, feel your love? Do you bring them each day your joy and caring?" The baby boomers in the audience began to shift in their seats. And she continued. "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion," she said, and then she told them why, in uncompromising terms. For about 1.3 seconds there was complete silence, then applause built and swept across the room. But not everyone: the President and the First Lady, the Vice...
...album represents a shift away from the comparatively innocent adolescent fantasies of Daydream. Underneath its cool sheen runs a thread of insecurity and loneliness that gives Butterfly a richer, more mature outlook. On the cut Outside, Carey sings of the creeping self-doubt of the lovelorn: "In your heart, uncertainty forever lies/ And you'll always be somewhere on the outside." Says Carey: "I feel more free to put more of myself into my music. There's a lot of real emotion in Butterfly. I lived with it. I woke...
Despite packing this brand-name punch, Case fears AOL could end up in the shadows of better-recognized competitors as the Web starts showing up on more mainstream platforms like TV sets. So he's trying to keep AOL flexible enough for the next big technology shift. "Even though we've been at it for a decade, this is like the second inning in terms of the development of this medium," Case tells TIME. The online business, he says, is about to become "the most competitive market in the world...
...Martin, who works the night shift at the Tasty, said he was more discouraged by the diner's prospects. He said he wondered if the Tasty's fight against the bank to preserve the building created enmity between the two businesses...
...with 63.4 percent in favor, that parliament will have the power to tax its new constituents. But though Thursday's referendum was timed to the 700-year anniversary of a William Wallace rout of the British, TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand says the landmark shift is a lot closer to states' rights than revolution. "Years from now, you might be arguing that this was the first domino toward independence," he says. "But this is a lot more like block grants than anything else. There's an office in London that distributes $14 billion pounds to Scotland every year...