Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change his mind, but it is a complex and tricky process. The key, by unanimous agreement of all who work for him, is to argue that a new position is as compatible with his fundamental beliefs as the one he is urged to abandon. Then Reagan can justify a switch as a mere tactical adjustment rather than a reversal of his conservative philosophy...
...computer and translates his spoken words into signals the computer can understand. Shortly after the Apple arrived in September 1980, a gift from the manufacturer, Gary and Ted realized that their main problem would be giving Rob complete mastery over the computer. They tried everything from a breath-controlled switch to a 10-in. rod that Rob held in his mouth. Then they learned of a voice-activated input device that could be taught 40 different commands. Within days, they had talked Scott Instruments of Denton, Texas, into donating one of its $990 voice-entry terminals...
Performers Betty McNally (Mrs. Stockmann), Jim Caudle (Dr. Stockmann), and Colette Auerswald (Petra Stockmann), each fall prey to a common inconsistency--switching indiscriminately from stereotypes to realism, not having developed the characters sufficiently to manage such a switch. Will Johnston (Captain Horster), Erik Corwin (Morten Kitty), and Roger Rignack (Aslaksen), however, are not inconsistent. They simply choose to not develop their characters--period...
Most scene changes follow a simple blackout-and-switch-the scenery-around scramble which soon becomes a bit too bouncy for comfort. The massive and ambitious vocal climaxes--such as an attempted coordination of offstage and onstage choruses--lead to moments of towering brilliance and intervals of embarrassing chaos in about equal proportion...
Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, whose bottling plants in the U.S.S.R. have been quenching Russian thirst since the Nixon years, contended that Reagan's on-and-off "light-switch commercial policy" branded the U.S. an unreliable supplier. Still, 15 more plants to bottle Pepsi will be uncapped soon. General Electric and Dresser Industries, two companies that would have been stung badly if the pipeline sanctions had gone on, now will be able to deliver their goods...