shifts

acts, actions, deeds, doings, feats, things

courses, procedures, proceedings, processes

accomplishments, achievements, attainments, coups, exploits, successes, triumphs

activities, affairs, businesses, dealings, enterprises, events

attempts, cracks, endeavors, essays, flings, goes, initiatives, operations, passes, shots, stabs, trials, tries, undertakings, whacks

efforts, exertions, labors, pains, troubles, whiles, works

projects, proposals, propositions

makeshifts, resorts, resources, stopgaps

countermeasures, countermoves (or counter-moves), countersteps (or counter-steps)

dislocations, migrations, relocations

locomotions, mobilities, motilities, motivities

fiddlings, squirms