Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes...the library is closing in 10 minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...
...that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from Moscow by Wu Xueqian, a former Deputy Foreign Minister, the switch reflected no change in policy...
Beneath an asthmatic fan, the pianist eases from a tired collection of pop tunes to Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory. It is a curious switch because there is hardly any glory in the seedy Kinshasa bar near the banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that...
Producer Ray Stark and Screenwriter Carol Sobieski, the perpetrators of the film Annie, here switch the situationyor has said: "I'm better than my movies." He is too modest, and not nearly discriminating enough in his choice of roles. Pryor makes a terrific Christmas present for any moviegoer. He just needs better wrapping...
...Seattle, and Ronald Evans and Neal Birnberg, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. The gene they prepared for insertion into mice was a carefully crafted composite. It consisted of a rat growth-hormone gene plus part of a mouse gene. The mouse portion served as a switch to activate the rat gene...