Word: shifts
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...shift in the lineup, Card could be named Treasury Secretary by the beginning of the year. Among his possible replacements are White House budget director Joshua Bolten, former Montana Governor Marc Racicot and deputy budget director Clay Johnson III. An adviser says the personnel shifts will be gradual: "They don't want to communicate panic because they're not panicked...
...team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...
...lead. After Harvard fell behind 29-28, a huge block from sophomores Mimi Hanley and Suzie Trimble tied it up at 29. But the Crimson fell just short of victory, as the Tigers pulled away with a 31-29 win. The second game was a welcome shift from the first in which Princeton dominated the struggling Crimson. “The first game was a bit of a disaster,” Blotky said. “Our main issue was that Princeton was controlling the momentum and controlling the pace of the game, and I think it took...
...about an African connection to Saddam Hussein's alleged WMD arsenal. Wilson suggested that Cheney must have known before the war that the claims were bogus. People who worked with Libby tell TIME that he regarded Wilson's criticisms as part of a wider effort by the CIA to shift blame to the White House for the faulty pre-war claims about Iraq...
...swimming took a back seat in Fingleton’s Harvard days. Due to a technicality involving his transfer-student status, Fingleton couldn’t swim during his freshman year. But even when he had the opportunity to return, Fingleton’s attitude had undergone a dramatic shift...