"Mr. Morahan is a classic conservative Republican," Mr. Zebrowski said, adding, "He is attempting to shift his positions".
The chain had been attempting to shift out of films and music and into accessories such as headphones.
George Pataki, New York's governor, has just announced a plan to cap the state's soaring Medicaid payouts, and Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, is attempting to shift the costs to private insurers.
Gordon Brown might be attempting to shift the focus from bigotgate to the economy today, but the whole Gillian Duffy affair has yet again shone a light on an issue bubbling under in this general election: immigration.
"Dean Eramo's lawyers are attempting to shift the focus of her lawsuit in the media to Rolling Stone's reporting errors surrounding Jackie," Rolling Stone spokeswoman Kathryn Brenner said in an email.
He later wrote in a letter to Wiener, "We are willing to do our part to house the elderly and the poor, but we firmly believe the city is attempting to shift to us, and to similar property owners, the entire burden of housing poor and disabled people in San Francisco".
In the residential sector, numerous programs are attempting to shift the behavior of individuals and households in the public interest for example toward more energy efficient practices, greater uptake of demand-side management technology, increased use of renewable energy, and better responsiveness to new tariffs (e.g., dynamic pricing), to name but a few.
During his remarks, Chopra appeared to be attempting to shift lawmakers' attention to the entire student loan program.
