Word: shifts
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...petition the government for redress of grievances,” legislators have only limited constitutional leeway to regulate political expression. But without draconian speech restrictions, reformers are left with only marginal changes that do not affect the underlying incentives to donate, and, as a result, campaign finance reforms just shift money around. So, when “soft” money was banned by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform, candidates raised more “hard” money, and 527s (such as the Swift Boat Veterans) picked up the remaining slack...
...culture will be," says Karen Sumberg of the Center for Work-Life Policy in the U.S. "If taking time to go see your child play soccer is O.K., and you see that the man or woman at the top does the same thing, then the culture will start to shift in that direction...
...just chauffeuring that's required. Fathers need to stimulate their children intellectually and emotionally just as much as mothers do, whether that means helping with homework or listening to a child's problems. In cultural terms, this is a seismic shift. Bear in mind that half a century ago, as men moved from villages to cities-or overseas-to find work, they had very little contact with their sons. Those sons, with educations paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs...
...uses silver-haired models in its ads. W, the fashion-world bible, recently called women who let their tresses go gray "silver foxes." Even if Dove's new products fail in the marketplace, the company's Pro Age campaign sends women a powerful message. "We're seeing a real shift in how people are approaching beauty," says Nancy Etcoff, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty and one of the researchers in Dove's study. "Up to now, it's been about fighting aging with everything you have. Now you have...
Strumpf attributed that decline to a shift in focus among retailers and consumers from CDs to DVDs, as well as a move in the music industry back to a singles-based business...