For a regime that has never acknowledged failings in its policies or tolerated any challenges to them, the recent economic measures, combined with an equally striking shift in diplomatic tack, suggest a new willingness to break with past practice.
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Also, it has been the destination of so many immigrants that it is on the verge of becoming, like Los Angeles, a place without a white majority, a striking shift from its past as a nearly all-white bedroom community.
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In a striking shift, leaders of the nation's most widely used program to discourage drug use among schoolchildren have acknowledged that their strategy has not had sufficient impact and say they are developing a new approach to spreading their message.
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The candidates'assault on HMOs marks a striking shift in public sentiment from the time when the insurance industry and the Republican-controlled Congress beat back the president's sweeping attempt to overhaul the health care system and extend health care to all.
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It established three new principles including " to prevent placements of children . . ., " reflecting the belief that children would be better served by staying with their biological families, a striking shift in policy that remains in force today.
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In another striking shift, the Republicans have agreed to increase funding for international population programs and remove the restrictions that none of this money may go to organizations that advocate abortion ( though the money will be available only when Clinton leaves office ).
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From the heat of summer to the first snows of winter, there has been a striking shift among many investigators, from the initial presumption of sabotage with a slim chance of mechanical malfunction to a presumption of malfunction with a slim chance of sabotage.
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In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades.
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This striking shift in advanced research and development from the top to the bottom of the computing industry is underscored by IBM's decision on where to invest in the future of computing power : a contract with the Sony Corp . to build the processor and network design for a future generation of its Playstation video-game system.
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Although the comment itself was not a striking shift for Bush, who has always been opposed to abortion, it came on the second day in a row in which he has been pressed to discuss the issue, and it seemed to highlight the influence that social and religious conservatives have traditionally held in the Republican caucuses here.
