Word: shifts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...article published Sunday in the New York Times, despite the fact that Harvard’s team has won only eight out of 28 games this season, six potential members of its incoming recruiting class are among the nation’s 25 most promising prep-players. This sudden shift in the team’s ability to attract a deep talent pool raises questions. The Ivy League announced Tuesday that it will launch an investigation. [See correction below...
Wallach and his allies began to shift local opinion by showing that going green wasn't just about saving the polar bears but also cutting waste and saving on rising fuel bills and building a stronger, more resilient town. Those arguments made sense even to Greensburg's old-timers. "Our church sometimes costs up to $1,000 a month to heat," says George, who plans to reconstruct the building to meet the highest energy-efficiency standards. "Now, I'm not a tree hugger by any means," he says. "But we have to be prepared for a future in which energy...
...your novels about Jesus Christ the end of your evolution as a writer or merely the beginning? -Kyle McCartney, Huntington Beach, Calif.It's the beginning of a new epoch. It was a big shift and the great thing about it was that it allowed me to draw on all of my experiences as a writer-I realized that my experience as a story teller could be used for a new vocation. I thought, 'I'm going to write about you and bring you to life in novels for people who don't believe...
...Kilpatrick. The son of a Christian musician who played hundreds of churches, he developed a keen sense of the distinction between the Christian message (not inherently funny) and what he calls its social, institutional and political "scaffolding" (a big target). He feels others share that view. "There's a shift," he remarks. "A new generation that without being less Christian is more culturally agnostic" and distanced from the architecture of insularity. "There's a deconstruction going on," he says, "and satire is one of the ways of doing that." Here are a couple of examples of how Kilpatrick is doing...
...second half came with a shift in momentum, thanks to some words of encouragement from Miller...