Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter, for example, Baker laments the switch from paper drinking straws--which somehow anchored themselves to the bottom of soda cans--to plastic ones--which always seem to float out of the can. Is this progress, he asks...
Many organizations devoted to the arts -- and not a few corporations -- are badly shaken by the transition from a founding father to a new generation of more practical managers. The changeover is always bumpier if the founder's departure is forced. But rarely is the switch as onerous and nasty, or the repercussions so lingering, as in the boardroom battle that in 1986 ousted William Ball from San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Even today, Ball's successors seek to justify his removal by selling the theme of "renewal" to a still skeptical public...
...similar manner, earlier sectioning, another goal of the abbreviated shopping period, was rendered impossible by the presence of students who continued to switch in and out after the nominal deadline, thus sabotaging any hope for an earlier start...
...Everyone had confidence in each other," Chandler said. "We dictated the tempo of the game and made them switch what they wanted...
...switch] took us out of our rhythm," Harvard guard Heidi Kosh said. "We were shooting the shots. We just weren't hitting them...