Yet in other respects he does represent a shift in the direction of American capitalism.
It is a further shift in the direction of news being faster, shorter, simpler and a mere commodity.
And that's when the tone of the show really took a rapid shift in the direction of the surreal.
The end of the supreme court's ban on it in 1976 corresponded to the beginnings of a political shift in the direction of neoliberalism.
In American society, there probably has been a further modest shift in the direction of religious, nationalist conservatism over the last few years.
Recent changes in the state pension system – towards an across-the-board, flat-rate payment – are regarded as a shift in the direction of a similar approach.
"In retrospect these were the kind of moments where there was a qualitative shift in the direction of society," he argues.
He said that Dr. Bell and Dr. Gray were correct about the data-centric technology trend and that increasingly the role of the nation's supercomputer centers would shift in the direction of being vast archives.
In coming Congressional debates, said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a member of the Democratic leadership, the balance between deficit reduction and stimulus concerns "is going to shift in the direction of job creation".
