Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Super Sunday Football from Avalon Hill ($39.95) comes with 20 past Superbowl teams on disk. Of course, the user can add teams and even switch them around. It allows someone to do an incredibly thorough job of what-ifs (what if the Patriots had William Perry, what if the Colts knew how to play, etc.) Super Sunday Football allows players to play against another player or against the computer. It's even possible to set the computer on auto-play; just sit back with a beer and some potato chips, and watch your computer play ball...
...after the announcement of the stock offering, executives at the soft-drink giant's Atlanta headquarters had another reason to toast themselves with Coca-Cola -- or champagne. Wendy's International, the Dublin, Ohio-based burger chain, announced that all of its 1,212 company-owned fast-food outlets would switch the cola they sell from Pepsi to the "Real Thing...
...explosion and the military action in Lebanon undoubtedly played a part in settling the last-minute quarrel between the partners in Israel's national unity government. According to their rotation plan, Labor Party Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, were scheduled to switch jobs last Tuesday. Indeed, Peres, who has led the country for the past 25 months, had submitted his resignation the previous week to President Chaim Herzog, and Shamir was poised to be sworn in for the next 25 months, until new elections scheduled for November 1988. At the last moment...
...Race up. Switch. Race down...
This ferocious battle for Senate dominance occurs at a time when Americans are paying less attention to party affiliation. A recent survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that when Americans step into the voting booth, 61% of them switch between parties. This tendency may be accentuated by the fact that local concerns weigh far more heavily than national issues in this year's congressional races. Says Democratic Media Consultant Robert Squier: "It's almost as if the states have seceded from the national parties...