Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political situation stands at this moment, a Reagan-Baker ticket could offer a worthy challenge to Carter-Mondale, who after all managed to defeat the Republican ticket in 1976 by only 56 electoral votes. If the Californian can hold the states won then by Ford, the switch of only a few states, such as Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana or South Carolina, out of the Democratic column could make the "unelectable" Ronald Reagan the next President...
...only concerts we ever missed," recalls Cohen, "was in Rockville, Md., at Thanksgiving. A plane crash had tied up air traffic at the Washington airport, so we decided to drive from New York. There were six lanes of traffic, none of them moving. At Trenton, we tried to switch to a train. Impossible. A storm blew up. We couldn't even phone ahead. When we arrived at the hall it was 9:30 p.m., and there were 30 people left. We played the Mendelssohn D-Minor Trio and told them we'd come back...
...marketing challenge is formidable. With after-inflation sales growing only 1% to 2% a year, cereal companies scrap hard for supermarket shelf space and advertise loudly to catch consumer attention. People switch brands as often as ten times a year, and a new brand has only six months to establish itself before losing out to a more popular competitor. Only one-third of new brands survive...
...case will drag on for months, if not years, and some cannot wait for it to end. "He killed my son and we're going to kill him," vowed Harold Piest, 46, the father of Gacy's last victim. "I'll go down and pull the switch myself if they want...
Members of the losing Ward 2 slate petitioned for a recount yesterday. A switch of as few as ten votes could unseat many of the elected liberals...