Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor, you switch your positions faster than your friend Dick Morris," Kerry said, referring to the former Weld consultant who recently left the Clinton campaign amidst a sex scandal...
...nearly five years the Canadian communications satellite known as Anik E-1 circled the earth without a serious hitch. Last spring, though, the $220 million spacecraft faltered. For hours, until users could switch over to backup systems, the transmission of all sorts of critical data--credit-card transactions, newspaper layouts, electronic paging requests, television and radio broadcasts--stopped. It took scientists a while, but they finally figured out what had caused the outage: storm damage...
...deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo Cisneros was my friend. He sent me four lawyers and a judge to tell me this was over." Cisneros cited Pepsi's lack of commitment to the business and his own bad health as reasons for the switch. "I gave those men five years to take a decision. Five years!" he says. Pepsi called Cisneros' reasoning "laughable," noting that the company had been negotiating a deal with him for two years...
...Institute, "that the FDA's rules do not address the reasons youngsters smoke, will not work to reduce youth access to tobacco, and are an illegal expansion of this federal agency's authority." Or as they used to say in those old cigarette commercials, we'd rather fight than switch...
...your diet things," Ishii-san said while he was laughing. I told him that I like food so much that I would rather eat my calories than drink them, the same rationalization my parents used on me when I was a fat fourth-grader to convince me to switch to that chemical-laden elixir. Only a blank stare and a cloud of smoke even Marge Schott would envy greeted this explanation...