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shifting and suburban
As the chain's warehouse and support operations were increasingly shifting to cheaper suburban locales in the 1960s, Eaton's wanted to make better use of its valuable downtown landholdings.
Although the other Hamilton-area Members of Parliament shifted to the eastward half of their ridings, in Valeri's case this would have meant shifting from a suburban Hamilton riding to the rural Niagara West — Glanbrook riding, where he would have faced a difficult battle with a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Rapson previously has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he led a multi-disciplinary project focused on the challenges faced by aging, inner-ring suburban communities address the challenges posed by declining tax revenues, changing economic and social demographics, and shifting political forces.

shifting and politics
The changes of venue and leadership resulted in a constant shifting of focus, technique, instructors, and politics.
After months of contentious relations with Prime Minister Sharif, Musharraf was brought up power politics through a military coup d ' état in 1999, and subsequently placing the Prime minister under a strict house-arrest before shifting the prime minister to Adiala Jail in Punjab Province.
Factors leading to abandonment of towns include depleted natural resources, economic activity shifting elsewhere, railroads and roads bypassing or no longer accessing the town, human intervention, disasters, massacres, wars, and the shifting of politics or fall of empires.
The Middle East has many ghost towns that were created when the shifting of politics or the fall of empires caused capital cities to be socially or economically non-viable ; for example, Ctesiphon.
After the 1997 election, Johnson averted a decline in The Spectator ’ s sales by recruiting " New Labour contributors ", and shifting the magazine ’ s direction slightly away from politics.
In the context of shifting tribal politics due to the spread of horses and guns, the Niitsitapi initially tried to increase their trade with the HBC traders in Rupert's Land whilst blocking access to the HBC by neighboring peoples to the West, however the HBC trade eventually reached into what is now inland British Columbia.
Reinfeldt has been called a " Swedish David Cameron ," insofar as he succeeded in shifting the public perception of the Moderate Party from a right-wing position to a center position in politics.
Bird, radical in his younger days, had been shifting to the right, and in the face of severe social unrest that forced a split in the ATLU in 1967 and rioting in 1968, the ATLU lost its tight hold of Antigua and Barbuda politics.
Wentworth, owner of the Democrat, had become by the end of the 1850s a member of the new Republican Party — a turnabout that can be said, with some oversimplification, to have resulted from the politics of the years before the American Civil War when feelings about slavery caused shifting alliances and political turmoil throughout the country.
His success was varied, but he exploited the shifting allegiances and power politics of Italian factions for his own benefit.
From 1979 to 1988, he represented the riding of Edmonton — Strathcona, but with shifting constituency lines moved to the Edmonton Southeast in 1988, and then again to Edmonton — Mill Woods — Beaumont in 2004 which he represented until he retired from politics at the 2006 election.
" Although he was still a force in Central African politics, he could see by 1886 that power in the region was shifting.
Long after the defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government she suffered even harsher treatment throughout her literary career because of the shifting Communist Party politics and power struggles.
Coverage of the event noted that both novels were on the trailing end of the dinosaur fad fueled by Jurassic Park, as the new trend in American books was shifting toward politics in the aftermath of the 1994 US elections.
Related to the Pecheneg, they inhabited a shifting area north of the Black Sea and along the Volga River known as Cumania ; where the Cuman-Kipchaks meddled in the politics of the Caucasus and Khwarezm.
Thus, despite a constitution and an elected assembly, Iraqi politics was more a shifting alliance of important personalities and cliques than a democracy in the Western sense.
However, Riga's politics are shifting from a ethno-linguistic cleavage to a socio-economic one, leading to a softening of this disparity in the 2001 local elections.
Papal politics of the mid-17th century were complicated, with frequently shifting military and political alliances across the Catholic world.
These lines of thought include equating the Holocaust with resettlement is referring to the Expulsion of Germans after World War II | expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe here ; calling into question the purposefulness of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944, in face of the threat from the Red Army, shifting German responsibility for the Second World War and Auschwitz to the British politics of appeasement and its pacifistic practitioners ; the notion that Weimar had failed primarily because of the bonds of the peace treaty, the “ edict ” of Versailles, the notion that the nonexistent national consciousness of the Germans was also a consequence of postwar reeducation, and the notion that in the last analysis it was the Communists who ( along with the National Socialists ) had buried the republican system ”.
But this form of attitude also alienated predominant Muslim groups from Russia's mainstream social democrats, as Musavat's shifting politics and populist slogans started receiving bigger appeal among the Muslim worker audience.

shifting and loss
It suffered with the loss of industrial jobs in the 1960s and later, and the shifting of population west of the city.
For existing unsynchronized tractors, the methods of circumvention are double clutching or power-shifting, both of which require the operator to rely on skill to speed-match the gears while shifting, and are undesirable from a risk-mitigation standpoint because of what can go wrong if the operator makes a mistake – transmission damage is possible, and loss of vehicle control can occur if the tractor is towing a heavy load either uphill or downhill – something that tractors often do.
They are just languages with accelerated loss of vocabulary, sometimes, in the Westerm Oceanic case, because they involve certain more ancient peoples of the region shifting to Oceanic speech after Oceanic-speaking peoples arrived.
At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained an assimilatory stance, leading to a progressive loss of their traditional language and a shifting of the younger generation towards Greek.
These parameters determine whether or not the shifting cultivation system as a whole suffers a net loss of nutrients over time.
With the loss of the forest, so shifting cultivation became restricted to the peripheral places of Europe, where permanent agriculture was uneconomic, transport costs constrained logging or terrain prevented the use of draught animals or tractors.
By shifting resources in the economy, a gain in benefit to one individual could be greater than the loss in benefit to another individual ( see Kaldor-Hicks efficiency ).
During language loss — sometimes referred to as obsolescence in the linguistic literature — the language that is being lost generally undergoes changes as speakers make their language more similar to the language that they are shifting to.
Many other full unstressed vowels also derive historically from stressed vowels, due to shifts of stress over time ( such as stress shifting away from the final syllable of French loan words, like ballet and bureau, in British English ), or the loss or change of stress in compound words or phrases ( as in óverseas vóyage from overséas or óverséas plus vóyage ).
Polk adapted with increasing difficulty to the shifting boundary and consequent loss of his position as clerk of court.
Roswell was the case of first impression on this issue in the state of New Mexico, and drew on cases in other jurisdictions interpreting the same language, most notably Davis v. Pennsylvania Co. 337 Pa. 456, 12 A. 2d 66 ( 1940 ), which on similar facts to Roswell came to the same conclusion and exonerated the innocent actor in favor of shifting any responsibility for the loss to tortfeasors and those who enabled them to act by giving them unjustified authority.

shifting and confidence
A plethora of political parties, coalition governments, shifting party loyalties and motions of no confidence in the leadership all lend an air of instability to political proceedings.
In this and other cases, we can quantify a probability for our confidence in the conjecture itself and then apply a Bayesian analysis, with each experimental result shifting the probability either up or down.
He lost a motion of confidence in 1988 with changes in the shifting coalition and was succeeded by Rabbie Namaliu, the new leader of the Pangu Party, but Wingti returned for a further two-year stint in 1992.
Melville also employs the river's fluidity as a reflection and backdrop of the shifting identities of his " confidence man.

shifting and management
The phrase " management is what managers do " occurs widely, suggesting the difficulty of defining management, the shifting nature of definitions and the connection of managerial practices with the existence of a managerial cadre or class.
One way to do this is by shifting away from waste management to resource recovery practices like recycling materials such as glass, food scraps, paper and cardboard, plastic bottles and metal.
While the trade-offs involved in combat aircraft design are again shifting towards BVR engagement, the management of the advancing environment of numerous information flows in the modern battle-space, and low-observability, arguably at the expense of maneuvering ability in close-combat, the application of thrust vectoring provides a way to maintain it, especially at low speed.
The Bhopal incident illustrates the difficulty in consistently applying management standards to multi-national operations and the blame shifting that often results from the lack of a clear management plan.
* Anti-roll bar: As a production option, engineers had advocated but management rejected the inclusion of a front anti-roll bar on the original 1960 Corvair, which would have ameliorated the car's handling – shifting weight transfer to the front outboard tire, considerably reducing rear slip angles — thereby avoiding potential oversteer.
The Green League is widely credited with shifting the UK's Higher Education sector towards improved environmental management and performance.
Good yield management maximizes ( or at least significantly increases ) revenue production for the same number of units, by taking advantage of the forecast of high demand / low demand periods, effectively shifting demand from high demand periods to low demand periods and by charging a premium for late bookings.
Whether it be a matter of ethics or just strategic advantage organizations are internalizing sustainability principles .< ref name =" BGG ">< Berns, M., Townend, A., Khayat, Z., Balagopal, B., Reeves, M., Hopkins, M. & Kruschqwitz, N., 2009, ‘ The Business of Sustainability: Imperatives, Advantages, and Actions ’, The Boston Consulting Group Report 2009, Pp 4-32, http :// www. bcg. com / documents / file29480. pdf .</ ref > Examples of some of the world ’ s largest and most profitable corporations who are shifting to sustainable environmental resource management are: Ford, Toyota, BMW, Honda, Shell, Du Pont, Swiss Re, Hewlett-Packard, and Unilever.
Therefore the most important part of shifting an organization to adopt sustainability in environmental resource management would be to create a shared vision and understanding of what sustainability is for that particular organization, and to clarify the business case.
Agricultural activities that can cause land degradation include shifting cultivation without adequate fallow periods, absence of soil conservation measures, fertilizer use, and a host of possible problems arising from faulty planning or management of irrigation.
In 1912 Adolf Heym assumed management of the company and began shifting the export market from Russia to the USA.
To reduce the pollution levels in the lake, the measures envisaged are: afforestation of degraded forest areas, prayer ceremonies to be made monastery centric than lake centric, implement a management plan with full local participation, shifting cultivation and grazing in the catchment to be discouraged, weed control through manual and mechanical extraction and most importantly to check anthropogenic and agricultural runoff into the lake.
The FCS ( BCT ) network possesses the adaptability and management functionality required to maintain pertinent services, while the FCS ( BCT ) fights on a rapidly shifting battlespace giving them the advantage to take initiative.
State and federal legislation outlawing the use of private detectives for the purpose of spying on or harassing workers, along with shifting public opinion, had made such detectives less useful to management in labor disputes.

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