Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blasted off into history four years ago by becoming the first American woman in space. Now Astronaut Sally Ride, 36, is set to explore the academic frontier. Her new mission: science fellow at the Center for International - Security and Arms Control, a think tank at Stanford University. Ride's switch to the private sector, effective Aug. 15, comes in the wake of her divorce from Astronaut Steven Hawley and reports that the ambitious spacewoman had become restless at NASA. "It was going to be a long time until she flew again," confides a colleague, "and she wasn't particularly turned...
Students at Columbia also have mixed feelings about their school's switch to the new system in 1974, Lobley says...
...switch? Rising sticker prices and the phaseout of income-tax deductions of sales taxes and the interest on consumer car loans are major reasons. Says Bill Willis, fleet and leasing manager for Ford Motor's Ford Division: "Leasing permits people to drive upscale cars, complete with options, without making any initial investment...
...Hart and the woman (whom she described but refused to identify), recounted a yacht trip they had taken together, and said the couple planned to rendezvous at Hart's Washington town house that Friday. Fiedler was skeptical. But when several details checked out (including, Fiedler discovered, a last-minute switch in Hart's weekend campaign itinerary from Louisville to Washington), the newspaper decided to follow up. Jim McGee, one of the paper's top investigative reporters, hopped a plane to Washington early Friday evening...
McDonnell Douglas has a particular grievance against Airbus: using "predatory" practices in trying to persuade customers who had already ordered the MD-11 to switch to the A340 instead. Scandinavian SAS airlines had signed a letter of intent to buy a dozen MD-11s and had put down a deposit on the order. Then Airbus jumped in with attractive concessions to SAS on a deal (the details are undisclosed) to buy A340s. The airline has delayed its final decision...