Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At the very least, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes, and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens-exit Earth.
ALLEGORIES OF READING started out as a historical study and ended up as a theory of reading. De Man began to read Rousseau seriously in preparation for a historical reflection on Romanticism and found himself unable to progress beyond local difficulties of interpretation. In trying to cope with this, he had to shift from historical definition to the problema tics of reading. This shift, which is typical of his generation, is of more interest in its results than in its causes.
How to Fix Medicare: Let's Pay Patients, Not Physicians
Health economist Roger Feldman argues that a radical shift in Medicare policy is not only possible but imperative. Under Feldman's medical indemnity proposal, Medicare would pay each patient a fixed amount of money, reserving larger subsidies for sicker people. Feldman argues that a radical shift in Medicare policy is not only possible but imperative.
From poverty to prosperity : free market based solutions
The monograph that follows is the result of an attempt to explore possibilities for a shift from poverty to prosperity and suggest public policies based on free market solutions for that shift. The findings that follow are products of years’ long research by the Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies in the area of poverty and prosperity.
Flamboyant, excessive, and full of changes, the 1920s fell between the two great wars of the 20th century. Characterized in America by the trends of Prohibition, bootleggers, the Harlem Renaissance, Art Deco design, and the Jazz Age, this period witnessed a shift in gender relations and moral values as well as the first generation gap.
