Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sulfur-dioxide emissions by 10 million tons in the states bordering on and east of the Mississippi. A tougher measure was introduced in the House ordering the 50 largest sulfur polluters in the U.S. to cut emissions substantially. To appease the Eastern coal mining industry, which fears a switch to low-sulfur Western coal, the bill requires the installation of expensive "scrubbers," devices for removing sulfur from the smoke, rather than a ban on high-sulfur fuel. Still, the legislation is being vigorously opposed by the coal industry and utilities, especially in the Midwest, where heavy industries are battling...
...bandwagon rolls on with Trading Places, a loose-limbed comedy in which Lowlife Eddie and Blueblood Dan Aykroyd are forced to switch roles, and then get even with the two greedy geezers who did them dirt. It is the summer's lone comedy hit, grossing $30 million in its first three weeks of release. "Eddie is definitely a movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts...
...instead of buying in the open market. Says Maimonides Administrator William Horner: "I gave our medical staff a choice. I told our chief of surgery that if we used the non-name products, we could put the money we saved toward providing more surgery." The staff enthusiastically endorsed the switch...
Other experiments on ST57 demand no more than a throw of a switch. Six are contained in a joint U.S.-West German package called OSTA-2 (after NASA'S old Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications), which will test such technologies as glass forming, alloy making and crystal growing in weightlessness. Two other experiments are repeat efforts aimed at producing superpure pharmaceuticals and precisely shaped latex particles for use in medical tasks like blood-flow measurement...
...School of Dental Medicine. The small number is due to the switch from a four-year to a five-year program...