Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community-service jobs, such as driving buses and delivering Meals-on-Wheels, would be thrown out of work. Many Republicans were irked that the White House had not forewarned them in August that Reagan might veto the bill; they approved the legislation then, and now resented being asked to switch their votes on a measure with popular appeal...
...some 200 customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...
...effect, channel 7 has told the viewers, "the only difference between our news operation and channel 5's is John Henning. Since we've hired him, its time for you to switch to us." Clearly, the viewers weren't convinced. They didn't flock to channel 7 either a few months, when it lured two attractive young anchors, Brad Holbrook and Susan Brady, from Nevada and Buffalo respectively...
Alan A. Khazei '83 agrees and his own switch from involvement in student government during freshman year to a commitment to Currier house committee, of which he is now chairman, is typical of the kind of involvement which more students apparently find satisfying. Some, in fact, point to the network of House committees as the de facto student government here, making the decisions which directly affect undergraduate life in small but noticeable ways. Because they perform community service and other specific assignments, "the meaningful committees are in the Houses," says John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College...
...vagina removed in surgery report the same sexual sensitivity they had before the operation. Says he: "They've misinterpreted the response as a great discovery. The response has been there all the time and has been recognized for hundreds of years. It is not due to an anatomical switch that can cause excitement." Dr. Kermit Krantz, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, believes that lovers aiming for the so-called G spot in fact are hitting a more general nerve area around the weak sphincter muscle of the vagina...