Word: switch
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...students will finish their last year under the old system, which has nine categories spanning A+ to F. Second-year students, whose fate in the transition was most uncertain, will graduate with a transcript with grades under both systems. They will receive letter grades through this year, and then switch to the pass/fail system as third-year students. Latin honors will be determined by a student’s performance during all three years. In an e-mail sent to the student body, Kagan wrote that delaying the transition until next year for second-year students would allow them...
...harvested far above world demand in recent years; last year's harvest was a record 8,200 tons and this year's crop dipped only slightly to about 7,700 tons, in part because the global food crisis sent the price of wheat rocketing, persuading many Afghan farmers to switch from opium...
...cheaper and easier to use, home movies made on film are becoming rare artifacts. Kate Bergeron, who works in the Harvard Office of Human Resources, also participated in the event and admitted that though she still makes home movies, they are now all on video. For Bergeron, the switch from film to video has had both positive and negative effects. “Though with film there was always the danger you would leave a shutter open and your entire movie would just come out black, with video you just don’t get those happy accidents?...
...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that, despite the cost of going green, governments and citizens would save in the long run from the switch to cleaner energy. And European Commission President José Manuel Barroso warned that Europe was in danger of missing the big picture. "This is not a luxury we now have to forego," he said. "Climate change does not disappear because of the financial crisis...
...Microsoft, saying that the company's much maligned Vista operating system drove users to Apple. "I think it's fair to say that Vista hasn't lived up to everything Microsoft has said it would," Cook claimed. "And consequently it's opened doors for a lot of people to switch...