Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Republican Switch. When the key vote came last week, every single Democrat who had supported the Monroney amendment last summer voted for it again. The labor lobbyists swung the tide for Kennedy by picking up five new G.O.P. votes, mostly from Senators who represent states with potent labor blocs-New York's Kenneth Keating, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Delaware's Caleb Boggs and Iowa's Jack Miller. After the Monroney amendment went down 56 to 39, the Kennedy bill breezed through...
...swig of the Scotch and water on the stand before him.* Lloyd lectured the House on Britain's nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes when the domestic market...
...switch was necessitated "to a large extent" by practical problems...
...Crimson, Bob Bowditch will be playing in the top spot instead of Paul Sullivan. The switch comes as a result of a test match played this week. Bowditch won the match in straight sets...
Ikiru describes a death occuring over the space of five months. But literally translated, the title means "to live." Watanabe's last day would be the final entry in a plot summary, but skillful use of flashback makes possible a switch between the presentations of his death and the struggle for the park, Ikiru's last scene is not Watanabe dead, but Watanabe watching children in the park he has forced through city hall. It is a very moving ending to a superbly acted and photographed film...