Word: switch
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...largest and most consequential” change in registration this fall, according to Kane, will be the switch to a primarily online course enrollment process—as opposed to the antiquated system of filling in bubbles on paper study cards...
Former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos says the cure to his country's instability is a switch to a parliamentary system within a year. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is fighting possible impeachment, endorses the idea, but without committing to a time frame. TIME's Anthony Spaeth and Nelly Sindayen asked Ramos recently if his solution can work...
...view a parliamentary system as one way of doing that. You say the switch should come by July 2006. do you insist on that timing? I'm saying we have 10 months, maybe 12 or 15?that's what the country can probably stand. Look at our peso, our credit ratings, look at the poor below. [He points from his 26th floor window to the streets and slums of Makati.] How urgent...
...Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
...Council, said that the international affairs fellowships, which pay fellows to pursue public policy-related interests, are, for recipients, typically “the jumping-off point...to go into higher levels of government.” Past fellows have included Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who made the switch from academia to government after she received a Council fellowship...