Word: switched
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...made for them. They will be assigned a carrier according to the outcome in their region. If ballots split 60% for AT& T and 40% for MCI, for example, 60% of nonvoting consumers would receive AT&T service while the remainder would find themselves dialing on MCI. Customers could switch carriers thereafter, but would pay a $5 fee to their local Baby Bell...
...fact, they had not done any such thing. Two months ago, the Miami- based retailer known as Teltec Savings Communications filed suit against AT&T for allegedly misappropriating customers and trying to "undermine" Teltec's business. Sprint and Western Union have also been charged with using bait-and- switch tactics, quoting one long-distance subscription rate to consumers, then charging another. Yet despite all those occurrences, FCC overseers claim the election process has been fair. Says Albert Halprin, chief of the FCC's common-carrier division: "The process was not perfect. But considering its size and scope, I'm surprised...
...Zien providing the voice) is a master of "quack fu" who reads Rolling Egg and DQ magazines. He grows angry: "No more Mr. Nice Duck." He waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers...
Poindexter botched the handling of an admittedly difficult White House switch on SALT II in May: Reagan's tentative decision to abandon the unratified treaty's limits on various strategic weapons. The NSC chief allowed news of the change to leak from a critical forum: a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He refused to brief the press on the matter, leaving a less expert White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, to fumble with explanations. Poindexter was also blamed for failing to get the nuances across to the President, who gave highly confusing answers to questions at a press conference...
Jewett said that the petition partly influenced the College's switch in plans because it "focussed the issue." He added, "The wishes of the students and the wishes of the best interests of the plan combined...