Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course that it set in May, to become a conventional airline competing for business travelers. Many industry specialists are doubtful that People, with its reputation for spartan travel conditions and first-come, first-served seating, will be able to convince passengers that it has made the switch. Says J. Henry Riefle, general manager of Manhattan's Hardach Travel Service: "No matter what People Express does, it will always be perceived as a low-cost, no-frills carrier. You can't expect a $300,000-a- year executive to worry about saving $45 on a flight to Pittsburgh...
Peres' concession put the focus squarely on Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time of the bus hijacking and is scheduled to assume that post again in October under a power-sharing arrangement in which he and Peres are to switch jobs. Some observers are convinced that behind the Shin Bet controversy is a Labor Party wish to keep Shamir from taking power. Shamir denies any wrongdoing, and he has stubbornly opposed an official inquiry. But at week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case...
Peres' decision to go along with the deal left his party furious. Labor strategists saw the affair as an opportunity to involve Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time of the hijacking, in a political scandal that might scuttle the power-sharing agreement whereby Shamir is due to switch jobs with Peres in October. Several Israeli press reports have suggested that Shamir may have had advance knowledge of the killings or helped cover up Shin Bet's involvement once he became aware of the facts...
These reprogrammable connections give the machine its name. For any particular task, the processors are electronically rearranged to suit the natural structure of the data. To simulate a computer component made up of 20,000 transistorized switches, for example, the machine would assign one processor to each switch. Then, rather than updating the state of those 20,000 switches one at a time, as in a traditional Von Neumann-type computer, the Connection Machine's software simply tells the 20,000 processors to update themselves all at once...
Since the automatic bell-ringing system cannot switch tempo to produce the joyful peals and mournful tolling required during Commencement week, a specially-trained campanologist must take over for the machines...