Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

Cutting waste in health care can shift down the level of spending.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange

Lucent botched a shift in demand to cutting-edge gear for fiber optics, failing to recognize telecom companies' hunger for bandwidth and then reacting too slowly to stop them from defecting to archrival Nortel Networks.

FORBES: Wired and Restless

When wage taxes are high and capital taxes are low, firms simply shift compensation from salaries to stock options and dividends, cutting revenue without boosting growth.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange: Zero-sum debate | The

The shift from coal is reverberating across Appalachia, where mining companies are laying off workers and cutting production.

MSN: Coal producers find themselves in a hard place

The corporate culture, meanwhile, had to shift from one focused on efficiently implementing what is decided elsewhere to one that consistently comes up with cutting-edge ideas.

ECONOMIST: Face value