Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most surprising change was a straight switch in jobs between James Baker III, 54, the President's smooth, politically savvy chief of staff, and Donald Regan, 66, the blustery, hard-driving Secretary of the Treasury. After four grueling years in the White House, Baker had yearned for what he called "a less fast track." With the huge budget deficit and an ambitious tax- reform proposal dominating the domestic agenda, he had decided that Treasury, while less of a pressure cooker, "is where the action will be." Regan, former president and chairman of Merrill Lynch, had long eyed Baker...
...side guarantees a devastating counterattack. Star Wars, argues McFarlane, would obviate the need for this balance of terror. Says he: "You would move away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard to imagine a leakproof nuclear umbrella, each side would still be vulnerable to a first strike. Moreover, each would have to worry about the other's achieving a decisive advantage...
Neither the party nor the country has been able to digest easily Mitterrand's switch in June 1982, from a big-spending economic policy to the current tough austerity program that has reduced inflation to 7% while leaving a record 10.1% French workers unemployed. To many left-wing voters, Mitterrand's about-face seemed a betrayal of Socialist promises and ideals, and was all the more bewildering because the government continued to maintain that its fundamental goals remained unchanged. At the party convention, the debate raged over whether the Socialists should, for example, continue to stress traditional themes...
...authors' admitted bias against the forces of evil that pursued the war in Vietnam. The good guys and the bad guys are labeled by name on every page. And for clarity's sake, there is no one in between (though a few people, like Robert MacNamara, are able in switch sides...
Chairman Louis J. Bakanowsky said this fall that he would like to switch the Film Studies position from a term appointment to a tenured position...