Word: switch
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...often lacked. Over the past few years there has been a grassroots groundswell on global warming, but the focus has been on personal action, small behavioral changes individuals can make - or more often, buy - to reduce their impact on the Earth. It's the light bulb theory - switch your wasteful incandescent lights for more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, and you're doing your bit to save the planet...
...worry that those fragile gains could be difficult to hold in 2008 if one of the most polarizing figures in politics is at the top of the ticket. "We have a lot of districts that are 50-49, where if the wind blows too hard, it's going to switch," says Missouri House Democratic whip Connie Johnson, a John Edwards supporter. "Many tell me that Hillary would be a lightning rod in their districts." Union officials say similar concerns have influenced their decisions regarding candidate endorsements. That helps explain why one of the largest, the Service Employees International Union, made...
When you're a devout�Mormon working as an insurance salesman, show business seems like an improbable career switch. But George Osmond was never one to worry about odds. Forty-five years ago, he drove his four sons--whom he taught to sing as a barbershop quartet--to Disneyland for an impromptu performance. It was a big break not only for the Osmond Brothers but also for his five other children--most notably daughter Marie, who hosted a variety show with her brother Donnie in 1976. "We don't care which Osmond is out in front," the patriarch...
...this view, everything people dislike about our system results from the tax break for employer coverage. It makes costs rise, since people are less careful when they're not paying out of pocket. It means people often lose their insurance when they switch jobs. And it keeps a lot of people--those who don't have employers who provide coverage--from having much access to health insurance...
...design for a building in San Francisco,” Chen says of his summer at an architecture firm between high school and college, “when the client said, ‘I don’t like your design, I’m going to switch over to another firm’. Just like that. That’s what drove me to be on the owner’s side.” Money talks, as the class of 1967 discovered (see sidebar), and for most careers, whoever controls the money controls the project...