Word: switched
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...restive populace by pummeling some scapegoat. Past offenders have included the U.S., which Khomeimi frequently calls the great Satan," the Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who oppose the regime, and the army of neighboring Iraq. Late last year, Khomeini added the Soviet Union to his list. It was a startling switch, especially for U.S. policymakers, who have been anxious about the possibility that the Soviets would make mischief in Iran ever since the fall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. As a State Department analyst noted last week, "Khomeini seems to be living up to his 'neither East nor West...
Pessimism abounded. A few years ago, the metric forces thought they could get the U.S. to switch in a decade. Now they do not expect metric to prevail before the year 2000. "It will be a generational change," says David Goldman, head of the National Bureau of Standards' metric office. "Only when youngsters who learned metrics in school reach upper-level management will the change really occur." Nor can the metric campaign expect much help. Though Deputy Secretary of Commerce Guy Fiske warned that American industry faces increasing resistance in trying to sell nonmetric goods abroad, the Administration...
...Salvador and covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee is requiring that the Administration encourage open-ended negotiations between the Salvadoran government and leftist guerrillas as a condition for sending the added funds...
...market, but now he no longer wants to take the chance. He intends to wait instead for the market to fall and then transfer some additional savings into stocks. Says he: "I'm holding out for a correction, but there's no question that I will switch once it comes, because I'm expecting another bull run after that." The latest rise has persuaded some analysts that the best of times may now be over. They argue that the biggest bargains have already been snapped up. Says Prudential-Bache's Yardeni: "So far this market...
Aside from the firm's employees, the only people who had access to the stone were a number of "very special clients," who were allowed to handle the diamond briefly while examining it. One of them may have been a little too special. FBI investigators believe that the switch was probably made during one of the intervals when the gem was out of the display case. They are now studying the videotapes to try to determine who did it. Said FBI Spokesman Joseph Valiquette: "It was a very professional...