Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money was the reason for the switch, according to UMass athletic director Frank McInerney. The NCAA pays the expenses of its championship participants, while the AIAW does not. "Our school simply cannot afford to send large teams long distances," said McInerney...
...similar resolution was voted down by a five-man majority that included Vellucci before last week's city elections; lack of support from candidates committed to rent control for his candidacy "might" have had something to do with his switch, Vellucci said. "I have a right to bend...I'm not frozen into anything," he added...
...tenant activism, found it next to impossible to break into the solid support of Cambridge apartment-dwellers for David Sullivan. Abt's candidacy may have proved this lesson most of all--despite high name visibility, enormous amounts of money, and an issue-oriented campaign, she was unable to switch many of the voters who normally give their support to one of the other CCA candidates. Wolf, considered a sheo-in by some, because of her strong school committee showing in 1979, ran headfirst into the same phenomenon...
...sheer persuasive power. There was to be no modification of the sale, only the endless assertion that, like it or not, the legislators dare not undermine him. Iowa Republican Roger Jepsen, a leader of the anti-AWACS forces, whose switch to Reagan's side the day before the vote signaled that the President would prevail, candidly admitted: "The situation hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed...
...argument was not settled until a few years ago, when a physicist and amateur paleontologist at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, John Mclntosh, and the Pittsburgh museum's David Berman sorted through tons of bones, re-examined the original site descriptions and discovered the 1909 skull switch. As a result, a longer head was retrieved from the dusty storage bins and mounted atop the Carnegie's Brontosaurus. Casts were also shipped of to other institutions, which, like the Pea body, are gradually making the change...