1.   Shifting winds blew clouds of spray over the rocks, trees, and shrubs until they seemed to be sheathed in alabaster.

2.   A former government adviser on privatization and a management expert here contend that Tan has thrived in the sharply shifting political winds by being a smart entrepreneur.

3.   After shifting winds caused the hurricane to weaken off the Southeast Coast on Thursday, the storm gained new energy from Gulf Stream waters early Friday.

4.   Chris Leary, a senior vice president and portfolio manager for SunAmerica Asset Management, said there were many shifting winds in the market Wednesday.

5.   Eventually, in the shifting winds of politics and taste, it was rehabilitated in Russia and revived abroad.

6.   However, shifting winds can also complicate anthrax attacks, especially in urban areas.

7.   Informed of the shifting wind, the pilots then requested permission to land on the same runway, but from the south.

8.   Its doctrine of self-reliance made it impervious to the shifting ideological winds, even in neighboring China.

9.   Later in the day shifting winds will send milder air toward the region resulting in clouds and a few snow showers over central and northern New England.

10.   Mayors of big cities, with big-time problems of police-versus-suspects, are vulnerable to the shifting winds of public opinion.