Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became unacceptable, the economy was slowed down until joblessness rose too high. Then the Government would start fighting unemployment, until prices again got out of control. The main effect of this on-again, off-again policy over the long run has been both more inflation and more unemployment. Another switch in programs would unfortunately wipe out the recent progress made against inflation without providing any lasting relief against the terrible plague of unemployment. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Barbara B.Dolan/Detroid
...action follows adoption of stricter refugee policies by Asian countries. Thailand last year declared that Laotians and Vietnamese would be considered illegal aliens instead of refugees and sent to austere detention centers. Since the switch to this "humane deterrent" policy, the number arriving in Thailand has been significantly...
Corporation members emphasize that they try to be consistent on issues over the years. But the ACSR which has five or six new members each year, it has been suggested, might be inclined to switch positions on a particular issue. But while the ACSR is able to change its recommendation on an issue, the Corporation, Putnam says, has got to have a "damn good reason" to switch positions. For instance, in 1981 the ACSR and the Corporation both opposed a resolution asking American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) to set up a review committee on a nuclear weapons laboratory. When...
...immersed in computers that he talked to no one, headed straight to his terminal after school and barely sat down for meals. The only way his father could get him away from the terminal was to go down to the cellar and throw the house's main power switch, cutting off all electricity...
...Name the only switch-hitter to collect at least 100 hits in a season both right-handed and left-handed...