Word: shifts
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...those plants are clustered in 25 states, each of which gets half or more of its electricity from coal. Why does that matter? Because creating a system in which electric utilities pay for the right to pollute will drive up electricity rates in those states and could force a shift to natural...
...decades, the Democratic Party has been slowly losing white working-class voters. In 2004, President Bush beat John Kerry by 34 electoral votes, clinching the key battleground in Ohio. Even a tiny shift among white working-class voters could have changed the outcome...
...realignments in foreign relations have seemed substantial - France's new engagement with the U.S.; musical chairs in the Kremlin; the Shi'a revival; the defeat of Australia's long-serving Prime Minister John Howard; indeed, the departure in June last year of Blair - none of them match the seismic shift expected on Nov. 4. Despite the growing power of China and India and a resurgent Russia, the election of a new U.S. President is still the biggest event in the international political calendar...
...Whether it was the sudden shift in weather—the sunny 65-degree weather quickly became torrential downpours late in the fourth—fatigue, or simply being outplayed, the final quarter was an aberration from Harvard’s general play, as the first three frames had been some of the best all season for the defensive corps...
These initiatives will benefit students that are already in college and encourage those whose families are seriously weighing a college education compared to the heightened debt that comes with it to apply. The U.S. government needs to do more, however, to catalyze a shift of college financing from loans to grants. Many people regard paying for a college education a fiscal risk that they are not willing to pursue. It is crucial, however, that this perspective be reversed. Congressional motions like this are the first steps down a necessary but lengthy path...