Consumer Reports vehicle testers, who are in and out of a variety of vehicles during a year, would sometimes accidentally shift cars into neutral when they intended to turn on the windshield wipers because they mistook downsized shift levers for wiper-control stalks, Mr. Fisher says.

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The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.

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AeroVironment's remote-control attack plane may be small, but it represents a big shift taking place in the U.S. military: Today's defense robotics are more focused on killing and less dependent on humans than ever before.

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David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.

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Conflicts between partners, members, or shareholders arise for a variety of reasons: personality differences, payment of dividends, allegations that a co-owner has converted business assets to personal use, marital divorce, shift in the balance of power and control between younger and older partners, employment discrimination claims and disagreements over the future of the business among others.

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If control of Phobos-Grunt cannot be re-established, the focus of interest will very rapidly shift to the spacecraft's certain fall to Earth.

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One big change that results from trying to manage a larger organization is a shift from a command and control environment in which the CEO makes key decisions to a delegation of authority to business-line executives.

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