Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flurry over Reagan's remark, came as Mondale and Ferraro were injecting some much needed spirit into wha has been a stumbling and limp Democratic campaign. At George Washington University, Mondale repeatedly drew cheers from some 1,500 students as he assailec the President's pre-election switch on foreign affairs. Mondale ticked off the contrasts: "The new Reagan praises international law. The old Reagan jumped bail from the World Court. The new Reagan criticizes South Africa. The old Reagan cozied up to apartheid. The new Reagan calls for peace in Central America. The old Reagan launched...
...against abortion The staunchest defenders of the decision-Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun-are all at least 75 years old. "All of our guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition all over again...
...switch in time saved nine." Quite possibly influenced by F.D.R.'s election mandate, Justice Owen Roberts changed sides and cast the swing vote to uphold important New Deal acts, including the National Labor Relations Act and a bill establishing Social Security old-age benefits. Another Justice, Willis Van Devanter, one of the conservative "Four Horsemen" who had been most ; resolutely opposed to F.D.R.'s pro" gram, announced his retirement. The New Deal was saved. The court-packing plan died in Congress...
...delays come as a result of a switch to a new operating system-software which is intended to upgrade computing power and efficiency and make Harvard's computers more compatable with outside systems...
...seats, the accord was easily approved by the legislature, and Peres was sworn in as Prime Minister. He will be the country's leader during the next 25 months while Shamir serves as Foreign Minister and acting Prime Minister; for the following 25 months, the two men will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last week the Likud government's Energy Minister, will head the crucial Finance Ministry. Ariel Sharon, the Likud politician who was forced to resign...