Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...registration debate started before the Senate adjourned yesterday, when senators began inserting opinions into the record. Meanwhile, White House and Pentagon lobbyists staged a last-minute lobbying effort to insure that senators committed to the proposal do not switch their votes...
Releasing Sacred Songs now will definitely hurt the credibility of Hall's apparent switch to a more vivacious style. The unknowing will simply dismiss this work as just another softie-gone-new-wave commercial album (as with Billy Joel's Glass Houses and the Eagles' Long Run). Certainly, the executives at RCA had the cash-in objective in mind when they decided to release Sacred Songs at this time...
Before the third campaign began, Doug Ault was cut. Solid catcher Alan Ashby was traded to Houston for pitcher Mark Lemongello. Soon, the squad's lone Canadian, switch-hitting infielder Dave McKay of British Columbia, was demoted. On Opening Day, 1979, about 23,000 people turned out in freezing rain. The Jays dumped the Kansas City Royals...
Just eleven hours before the start of the mission, a sailor accidentally hit a fire control switch, dousing five of the RH-53s with sea water and foam. The aircraft were rinsed with fresh water and inspected. No visible damage was found...
...their surprise, the scientists counted fewer than half the electron neutrinos anticipated. Reines speculates that they had changed flavors, or oscillated, turning into muon or tau neutrinos during their short journey. If such a switch had occurred, the neutrinos must have mass (since physics dictates that one kind of particle must have mass to turn into another). Said Reines: "The simple view [of the massless neutrino] does not square with experimental facts...