41.   The servers begin their shift by signing up for the daily chores that need to be done before opening.

42.   The shift by Merrill Lynch is emblematic of the ferment in the financial services field as a growing number of marketers rethink agency relationships.

43.   The wholesale shift by employers to health maintenance organizations, which drastically slowed the rise in health care costs, is almost complete.

44.   The willingness of the Pentagon to put a long-term footprint in Central Asia underscores a broader shift by President Bush.

45.   There were super shifts by the line of Blake Bellefeuille, Jeff Farkas, and Mike Lephart.

46.   They play shift by shift.

47.   This represents a shift by the industry, which until now has opposed new federal standards for managed care.

48.   This surrender has amounted to an extraordinary, largely unexplained shift by Milosevic.

49.   What makes the network business particularly attractive now is the shift by the Federal Communications Commission toward letting the networks have far more freedom to produce their own programs.

50.   Whether or not global funds get in the act, a shift by Chilean pension funds could make a big difference.