Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, with rotating day and night shifts. At the end of each three-week cycle, they get five consecutive days off. This adds up to far more family time a year and creates flexibility within the team for handling personal problems. Someone who needs a day off can switch with another member; those who want overtime can volunteer...
...only a formality, the very insistence on having a first-year complete a list of the courses he or she plans to take in the next four years is absurd. How can we possibly know at that point if our interests will remain unchanged? But you can always switch majors, they deceitfully tell you--sure, from biochemistry to biology, not from biology to Persian studies and not from psychology to history and literature--at least not if you are hoping to graduate with your class...
Such studies have given some economists reason to switch sides in the wage debate. "The negative effects are not significant at the level at which the minimum wage is being raised," contends Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who argued against the minimum wage in a textbook he wrote in 1993. Last October about 100 other economists who share his view, including three Nobel laureates, announced their support for President Clinton's plan to raise the wage 90'--from $4.25 to $5.15--over 15 months...
...claiming that goal as his own, and fending off the harshest ideas--never mind that his most painful cuts wouldn't kick in until after he left town--Clinton emerged with the upper hand. The White House message factory, run by political consultant Dick Morris, a two-party switch-hitter, helped him turn that success into a full-blown strategy. Suddenly, the Big Government, health-care blunderer had seized the political center, setting up shop ever-so-slightly to the left of the Republicans and positioning himself as America's last defense against G.O.P. "extremists." Since the Republicans control Congress...
...adults became disreputable and untrustworthy (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon). The deconstruction of American public authority in the Vietnam years left boundaries eroded and crumbling. Individual roles melted into one another. Older distinctive identities and purposes grew confused. Men and women interchange roles on a horizontal axis. Children and parents switch places on the vertical. Too many of the parents never abandoned their wistfully self-cherishing idea of themselves as children...