Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason: it is a habitat of falcons, Boyce's passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph on Lester's driver's license resembled Boyce-and the man snapped on bank film during at least one holdup. The investigators descended on Beaver...
...charge of Time Inc.'s magazine group; of a heart attack; in Manchester, Vt. An associate publisher of LIFE and publisher of FORTUNE, Keylor took over the magazine group in 1972 and oversaw a tripling of magazine revenues to $1 billion. He presided over FORTUNE's switch from a monthly to a biweekly, the rebirth of LIFE as a monthly in 1978 and the launchings of PEOPLE (1974) and DISCOVER...
...reason, the city government in Toledo tried unsuccessfully to block the opening of a restaurant there in 1978. The company denies the charge, claiming "Sambo's" is a combination of the names of its two founders, Sam Battistone Sr. and F. Newell Bohnett. The company finally decided to switch rather than continue fighting. If No Place Like Sam's leads to sales increases in the Northeast, the company may adopt it nationally...
...Black students' demand for a full holiday. Perhaps there will be an explanation of the move in Government 150, "Bureaucracy." You can bet the subtlest change in the book from one year to the next--the half-step promotion of someone from Lecturer to Assistant Professor, or the switch of a course from fall term to spring--may actually be the result of the furious internal battles for which the Faculty is deservedly famed...
...store information, and high-speed printers. Like all other modern products, they come in a range of prices, from Apple's no-frills model at about $2,500 to the luxurious new CPT 8100. Cost of the machine, with a twin-head Rotary VII Printer that can switch instantaneously from roman to italic type or from letters to scientific symbols...