Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly new" and "off-lease" autos at nonnegotiable, uniform prices. Driver's Mart plans to sell the reconditioned cars complete with warranties and 30-day return policies. "When you think of shopping for a car," urges Driver's Mart president Thomas Eggleston, "think Home Depot, Nordstrom. That's a switch...
...That switch has already happened on a smaller scale at Circuit City Stores of Richmond, Virginia, the national appliance and consumer-electronics retailer, which launched its haggle-free CarMax division in 1993 and now successfully operates four superstores in North Carolina and Georgia, as well as Virginia. And soon, H. Wayne Huizenga, founder of the Blockbuster video group, will forge a similar no-dickering used-auto chain, called AutoNation USA, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
...This switch, more than any other action by Harvard's administration in its 350 year history, threatens the University's status as our nation's premier institution of higher education...
...respect Berry's professed reluctance to make the switch. But have we really done everything that can be done to save Coca-Cola...
...date and location on the back of each picture, not the front, so family fun shots don't look as if they were caught by airport security cameras. Film loading is simplified (drop in a cartridge, shut the camera, the film threads itself), and a button allows you to switch among three image sizes (standard, wider, panorama)--but these are only modest advances over today's models...