Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burst into perfunctory applause. Onlookers in the gallery turned to each other to make sure they had heard the word "Presidium" rather than "presidency." They had. Andropov had been nominated for the 40-member ruling Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, but not as its President. Then, as if a switch had been thrown, all 1,500 delegates raised their hands in unanimous approval. For the moment Andropov would do without Brezhnev's second title...
...there is still something to say for a house that is firmly planted in the ground. Nice as their mobile home has been in the economic pinch, Janice Bronson, for one, would welcome the switch. Says she: "This one does not have a sense of permanence. For one thing, when I run a load of wash, I can't have a record playing; the whole house shakes...
...appreciated the "great courtesy" that Andropov had shown toward himself and Bush, but "the thing we are really looking for . . . is the substance of change in behavior." As Shultz noted, no sooner had Brezhnev been laid to rest than "it was as though someone threw a switch and suddenly martial music and a long march-by of troops. That was mood music too, I thought...
...club team's existence when he was applying. And Fasi remembers that "out of six schools I applied to. Harvard was the only one that didn't recruit me for water polo." He wasn't planning to play here until he heard in May 1980 of the switch to varsity status...
...justifying the switch in signals, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kenneth Adelman said that "disputes should be settled by discussion and never by force." Washington's purpose in backing the Argentine-sponsored resolution was actually far more pragmatic: to regain some of the good will that the U.S. lost in Latin America by taking Britain's side in the conflict. U.S. diplomats pointed out that they had lobbied successfully to water down the resolution before voting for it. Among other things, the U.S. persuaded Argentina to drop a reference to the Falklands as a colony. In addition...