Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
...Telephones. Why does it cost more than $20 to flip a switch and turn on a phone line at the beginning of every year, in every dorm room? The Student Telephone Office bleeds thousands of dollars a year this way from students who cannot afford...
What is certain, and very few things are in Hong Kong these days, is that international hype promises a media event in the making. Every press agency around the world will be there, watching, and making us all witnesses to the political switch-over. What better spectacle...
Craig Malbon and his colleagues were convinced that they had made a momentous discovery. So they held a press conference at New York City's Grand Hyatt Hotel to announce it. What they had found, Malbon told reporters last week, was an enzyme that acts as the master switch for breast cancer, a disease that kills 44,000 women in the U.S. each year. "This gives us a new diagnostic tool and a new therapeutic strategy," maintained Malbon, a pharmacologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook...
Further, the current Core system heavily penalizes those who switch concentrations. A student who starts out as a History concentrator, takes two departmental history courses and then switches to English must go back and take courses in Historical Studies A and B, repeating coursework in the very area she has already taken the most courses in, all the while eating into his or her already scarce electives...