Word: switched
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...wake of its switch to early decision, Yale witnessed a substantial drop in the number of early applicants. Just 1,096 students applied to the school's inaugural early decision program, down nearly 25 percent from last year's early action total of 1,592. Figures from Princeton were not available last night...
Other Ivy League schools also received a boost in applications as a result of Yale and Princeton's switch...
...switch--a sex change, no less--here. Judi Dench, the distinguished English stage actress, is now running Bond. She has a butch hairdo, a brusque Thatcherite manner and a license to kill with unkindness. She calls Bond a "sexist, misogynistic dinosaur" right to his face. There's a chic in her cheek the rest of the movie direly misses...
...Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. A few months later the network lost eight important affiliates to Fox when Murdoch acquired the 12-station group owned by New World Communications--stations that Tisch had earlier passed up a chance to buy. To replace the stations, CBS has been forced to switch to weaker UHF outlets in major cities like Detroit, Atlanta and Milwaukee; ratings there have dropped precipitously...
...observations that enabled us to argue that the principles of gene regulation in higher organisms can be understood with certain modifications of what we know in lambda," Ptashne says. "Those principles of gene regulation in higher organisms were then explained in the second edition of 'A Genetic Switch...