Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double standard practiced by tobacco companies not end with marketing techniques. Hooked American smokers, fearful of tobacco's health hazards, can at least turn to safer "low tar" cigarettes. Instead of defiantly boasting "I'd rather fight than switch," health-conscious smokes can mumble, "Well, I guess I'd rather switch than wait to see which gets me first--the cardiovascular disease or the lung cancer." But low tar cigarettes cost firms like Philip Morris much more to produce than the high-tar variety. As a result, the tobacco sold abroad contains much higher tar levels than domestic cigarettes...
...expected a diametric switch when I transferred from West Point, which is said to be oriented to the right, to liberal-minded Harvard. And not only was I moving to this liberal campus, but [the Co-op] was the most liberal of the liberal. After coming from all West Point structure, I was thrown into a situation where duty dishes were always lying around the house, and dinner usually wasn't ready," Calvert recalls...
...actually a love letter to the real thing. "Some people have said to me that there's a lot of anger in the material," says Alessandrini. "If so, I didn't realize it. What I hope comes through is our appreciation of Broadway. I'd gladly switch places with any of those people we spoof...
Many of Gramm's constituents in the solidly Democratic but fiscally conservative Sixth District seem unfazed by his switch of allegiance. "People who like him still do," shrugged Neeley Lewis, Brazos County Democratic chairman, "and people who don't still...
...closing time proper, the library noises had subsided to occasional clicks and footsteps as guards walked through the corridors snapping off stray lights. At 10:21, all the overhead lights went off at once--evidently, to Jack and Jill's relief, controlled by a central switch. No one had come within two bookcases of them...