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Word: switched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard uses the pipe-covered cables, but Fernandez said that because of the extra cost of the pipe-covered kind. Cambridge is not considering a switch...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Quad Residents Complain About Poor Lighting on Common | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

...that families should be deprived of all the varied benefits of television is as inane as much of the mindless junk that is on the tube. The answer is not to disconnect the set but rather to exercise judicious control over the On switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1982 | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...SWITCH AND FIGHT. When two-term Congressman Eugene Atkinson changed his affiliation from Democrat to Republican a year ago, prospects for his re-election seemed rosy. His new G.O.P. friends promised to fill his coffers with cash and gerrymander his Fourth Congressional District in Pennsylvania to suit his new identity. They came through. Republican national organizations contributed $57,000 to his race against unknown Democrat Joseph Kolter, 56, and the state legislature cut the district's 45,000 Democratic edge in half. But few foresaw the ravages of recession in this steel-mill area, where unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the House | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple François Mitterrand at his 1981 inauguration as President: "It is thanks to you that this is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lady in the White House | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Corporation members at the time said they did not want to switch abruptly from past opposition to such anti-nuclear messages...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowftz, | Title: Advisory Committee Continues Nuke Investment Consideration | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

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