Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of summer. "Instead," griped Casey, "he was sent off to Santa Barbara for 30 days to chop wood and ride horses." Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley, a Reagan ally who voted for Bork on the Judiciary Committee, denounced the White House for being "asleep at the switch" last summer...
seat racing: the ultimate--and most brutal--test for an individual sweep. Two fours are lined up and raced, two rowers switch boats and the race is repeated. The stronger rower is determined by the relative results of the two races...
Step three: Put the "right" information on the label. His upperclass friends were right when they told him to get a computer. Forget Macpaint, forget c.s. problem sets, forget word processing. He used his computer to duplicate the type on his real i.d. Sure he had to switch around to find a font that matched, but he always knew he would have to work to do well at Harvard...
...most actors interviewed say they do not mind being called by directors during the 24-hour period. They say they prefer being told about a role before making other commitments. One performer says she was called and asked if she would switch parts. "It didn't really matter," she says...
...were confused at first how to attack their option," said adjuster Mike von Rueden (six tackles), who had never defensed the Wishbone before the NU game. "We had practiced a certain way and it wasn't working, so we had to switch in the middle of the game...