Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reach their $30 billion goal. Consider the truth-in-pizza labeling plan. Under this provision, manufacturers of frozen pizzas will be required to inform consumers whether their pies are made with real cheese. The designers of the plan expect that pizzamakers who use ersatz products will be forced to switch to the real thing. The result will be an increase in the demand for cheese. The Federal Government, in turn, will have to buy back less cheese from dairy farmers. Estimated budget savings of this cheesy scheme: $29 million over three years...
...myth that all section leaders are adequately qualified scholars and teachers must be exploded. Professors should accept the fact that some of their TFs are inept and attempt to compensate. They should make it more comfortable for students to complain about section leaders and should permit students to switch sections simply on the basis of disliking a section leader. In Ec 10 currently, dissatisfied students are forced to come up with far more creative excuses...
...found it. With parts picked up at a local Radio Shack store, the first-time inventor developed an infrared tester the size of a cigarette pack that could easily be held near the lights. And the price was right: just $8.70 to buy a phototransistor, light-emitting diode, switch, casing and nine-volt battery. Ledoux sent the plans to Army officials, who asked to sample the actual device. The gadget proved popular with other test crews, and the Army estimates that its use will save an average of $6.3 million a year. Ledoux stands to gain $35,000 in incentive...
...accept 50% pay cuts. Some employees contend that Continental too is sloppy about maintenance. In October, one pilot says, he was told to fly a jetliner with a broken radar device into an area that was being buffeted by thunderstorms. When he refused, supervisors had the balking captain switch planes with another pilot, who agreed to fly the aircraft with the radar problem. Fed up with such episodes, the captain forsakes discounts of nearly 100% to buy his 16-year-old daughter full-fare tickets on competing airlines. Says he: "I won't have her fly on Continental...
...curtains. Out of sight, the officer rustles mysteriously through what seems to be a thick book. Then he appears to scribble furiously for a minute or two. After a final scrutiny of the traveler's face, the passport is pushed back. "Welcome to Nicaragua," says the officer, hitting a switch that opens the electronically operated exit doors. If the Sandinistas do not admit to being Communists or Marxists, they certainly understand the etiquette...