Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laughlin switch would be part of a notable trend. Three other Democrats in Congress have joined the G.O.P. since November, and more defections are probably coming. At least three other Southern conservative Democrats have made it clear that they are itching to jump ship. A larger number are likely to retire rather than run in 1996. That would make the Democrats' quest to regain control of the House in 1996 little more than a pipe dream. "To gain the seats the Democrats need to be the majority in the House will be really, really, really hard," said congressional expert Charles...
...said Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, who also resigned from the committee. Tauzin has given Democrats until December to shape up--or he will jump just in time to run for the Senate. Mike Parker of Mississippi isn't expected to wait that long. When asked if he is switching parties, he says, "I have no plans to switch--today." More telling is the way he describes himself: "a recovering Democrat...
...plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots watched the proceedings unfold, they were stunned to see entered into evidence declassified Air Force documents that showed the Black Hawks were supposed to switch to a second frequency when entering Iraq. "They were flying on the only code they were given," says Army Captain Michael Nye, who flew missions over Iraq for nine months. "They'd still be alive if we'd been given both frequencies by the Air Force...
That sounds easier than it probably is. Pornography is powerful stuff, and as long as there is demand for it, there will always be a supply. Better software tools may help check the worst abuses, but there will never be a switch that will cut it off entirely--not without destroying the unbridled expression that is the source of the Internet's (and democracy's) greatest strength. The hard truth, says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the EFF and father of three young daughters, is that the burden ultimately falls where it always has: on the parents...
...from 1967 to 1972, provided cubic tons of melodrama, from the explosion of the Apollo 1 test module that killed three astronauts to Neil Armstrong's buoyant lunar stroll from Apollo 11. The apogee of American know-how and teamwork, the program could, at the flick of a wrong switch, careen from triumph to tragedy. In this job, success meant you forged the ultimate frontier; failure meant you died with the whole world watching...