Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...default, concentrating on the Republican-controlled Senate, which would have to concur if the sale were to be defeated.? Yet even in the Senate, rejection also seemed likely. Two days before the vote, opponents counted 55 Senators committed to or leaning toward rejection. Reagan had to switch the votes of several Senators who had been publiclyproclaiming their opposition for months...
...UMass is very dangerous," says Crimson head coach Bob Scalise. "Their attackers have great mobility and they switch very well in the offensive zone," he adds...
Dissatisfaction with the almost one-party rule that the middle-of-the-road New Democracy Party had instituted and the "compelling personality" of newly elected Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou also contributed heavily to the switch in power, Roy Macridis, professor of political science at Brandeis, said...
Without financial penalties, they said, students might switch courses just as frequently as they do under current rules, which allow upperclassmen to wait more than a week before submitting course choices and give freshmen even more time...
...elected President of France five months ago after 23 years of conservative rule. Many French analysts sympathetic to Mitterrand saw the Greek socialists' victory as an affirmation that a fragile democracy had come of age. Pronounced the leftist daily Le Monde: "It is part of a democratic switch from one political party to another that has been all but absent in modern Greek politics...