Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after one semester at Harvard, about half of the transfer students decide to become off-campus affiliates of a residential house and have their paperwork transferred there. Forcing all transfer students to affiliate with Dudley when they first come to Harvard makes for confusion when they have to switch advisers and familiarize themselves to a whole new house. Worse still, it keeps transfer students from integrating into house social life--the mainstream of the campus...
Tolk arranged the proposal during latersession with Krok Musical Director Mischa A. Frusztajer '89 at the Krokodiloes' pre-concert retreat in Vermont. "It's traditionally the director's role to sing 'marry me' to someone in the audience during out theme song. I talked to Mischa and arranged the switch," Tolk said...
...millions of voter names, along with each one's age, address, telephone number, party enrollment, ethnic origin and income level. Not to be out- teched, the Democrats have launched their own computer initiative, an ambitious effort to identify some 16 million swing voters who might be persuaded to switch allegiance at the last minute...
...four, Dresden-born Kania started her athletic career as a figure skater, but sprouting growth (5 ft. 9 in.) and injuries from too many falls persuaded the 13-year-old to switch to speed skating -- less glamorous, more rewarding of power than finesse. She won one gold medal at Lake Placid in 1980 and two more (plus two silvers) at Sarajevo. Now approaching her physical peak at 26, Kania says, "My aim is two gold medals in the Olympics." How about three? "Oh, no! Just two." And she waves off any bad luck that might come of talking about impossible...
Officials told a reporter from Boston radio station WBCN to switch off her tape recorder during the formal acceptance and counting of the HRAAA signatures...