Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the attempts to distribute freshmen equally, Watson said, he cannot allow a dissatisfied group of students in one house to switch with a group in another House...
...stamps redeemable for food. If the family has an income of under $30 a month, it would get the stamps free. For those slightly better off, food stamps would be provided at a cost no greater than 30% of their incomes. The chances are that the Administration will eventually switch from giving food stamps to disbursing cash...
...talked with some centrist politicians and, in a political statement of faith (slogan: "A New Start") worked out at his country home last weekend, he promised to give the Assembly a greater say in running the government-a centrist obsession. He also decided to switch away from a campaign strategy based on TV appearances and announced that he would spend nearly half the two-week campaign visiting every region in France...
...Market is the market's mountain of surplus butter, which is now 300,000 metric tons and is expected almost to double by next spring. With storehouses filled and the world market clotted, leaders of the Common Market's agriculture section are trying to persuade consumers to switch from margarine to butter. The proposed solution, which includes a tax of at least $60 a ton on the food oils used in margarine, would slash by one-third the U.S.'s $500 million annual soybean exports to the Common Market. The tax plan was shelved after...
...people strongly in the direction of what a radical-romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raises a fierce moral problem; there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument: stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed out of him; if it's true for him he should know...