The city could shift priorities within its capital budget and save money in some areas.
Homeless advocates say the city has only shifted the problem.
By contracting out for emergency medical service, the city shifts the burden of equipment costs, liability insurance and management to private enterprise.
After years of litigation and confrontation with the squatters, the city has now shifted course.
The city cannot shift the financial costs of solving its problems on Yorktown.
An older industrial city, Manchester has shifted from manufacturing to software and electronics.
When this listing came about in 1978, the city shifted its planning from demolition to restoration.
Last spring the city shifted control of most gardens to its housing department as a first step toward this conversion.
After 1945, the city gradually lost its industrial base and shifted to service industries.
Most other big cities shifted to an "enhanced 911" system years ago.
