Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgakas calls upon the would-be longevous to lead campaigns against environmental degradation. Health hazards threatening long life dominate workplaces in particular--and he urges workers in industries with 'clear and present dangers' to switch from toxic locales and jobs, among which he singles out nuclear power plants and petrochemical industries. Where do they go? That's their problem...
...something there would not be much left of it. Carried mostly by officers, aviators and military police the weapon has proved so durable that the Army still draws upon its cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World War II. The Pentagon has decided to switch to the 9-mm because it will use ammunition standard among other NATO countries, will be lighter (roughly 2½ lbs.) than the .45 and pack nearly the same wallop. One other attraction cited by the Pentagon: the 9-mm will be "easier for women to deal with." The .45, which...
...consequences are inevitable. "Like an overburdened telephone switch board," explains Dr. Walter Riker Jr., chief of pharmacology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "the brain cannot handle all the messages. There is too much information flowing in, and the user becomes hyperaroused." With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light...
...India's economy is plagued by poor industrial production, a debilitating balance of payments owing to oil costs, and 15% inflation. In the long run, these problems may fall more to Rajiv than his mother. Few doubt that he is being groomed as her successor and that his switch from a pilot's seat to one in Parliament foreshadows bigger things...
...production of warplanes to the manufacture of motor vehicles. At the same time, an ambitious young Mitsubishi engineer named Teruo Tojo was shifting over from work on the firm's famed Zero fighter plane to the design of buses and trucks for peacetime. As things turned out, the switch from planes to cars proved a smart one for all concerned. Mitsubishi Motors Corp., now a subsidiary of MHI, has become Japan's fourth largest automaker (fiscal 1980 sales: $5.2 billion), and next week Tojo, 66, will become the firm's president and chief executive officer...