Word: switched
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...SEEN the future of American higher education, and it is something called "competency-based learning." In the bad old days, switch-wielding professors demanded rote memorization of facts and the ideas of others. But to meet the challenges of a new era, Bok writes, a "critical mind, free of dogma, may be the most important product of education...
...could be seen last September when Marysville changed over from building 1985 Accords to the 1986 model, a process that required a near total retooling of the assembly line. In many U.S.-owned plants, such a changeover can consume several days, even weeks, of costly downtime. At Marysville, the switch was made in a matter of minutes without any loss of Honda's burgeoning production...
...extraordinary that when one member of the family, John Lee Saltonstall Jr. '38, began working for a Democratic candidate, that one of the senior members of the family, long connected to the Republican party, wrote in to The Boston Globe to publicly disassociate himself from the unprecendented party switch...
Rhonda Issler chose the Pill as her first contraceptive when she was a young adult in the early 1970s. But after five years, news of the Pill's potentially harmful side effects made her switch to an intrauterine device. Soon after, she suffered severe menstrual cramps and a pelvic infection. Issler eventually turned to the diaphragm, but she found its use messy and inhibiting. Now 33 and living in North Hollywood, Calif., the working mother of one relies uneasily on a combination of the rhythm method and the condom. "Birth control is a very important decision, but also a very...
Last year Iran moved its main oil-shipping operations from Kharg Island, which is only 125 miles from Iraq, to Sirri, 350 miles farther down the gulf. The switch helped keep tankers out of range of Iraq's air force. But either by using in-flight refueling, as some Western military analysts conjectured, or airfields in nearby Arab states, as the Iranians claimed, Iraq proved that it has the ability to reach Sirri. Iran, meanwhile, is trying to move its oil- loading operations to Larak Island, another 125 miles farther down the gulf and closer to the protection of Iranian...