Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even strategists who doubt Caddell's formulation that a political party, like a French noun, can connote gender, concede that the Democrats must strive to convey toughness if they are to attract the defectors and younger men who contributed heavily to both Reagan landslides. Pollster Stanley Greenberg, after studying switch voters, points out, "Younger voters, even more than others, respond strongly to candidates who seem determined to pursue clear goals -- regardless of what those goals are." It worked for Reagan and for Oliver North...
Last week Beverly Hills decided it would rather switch than fight. The five-member city council unanimously adopted new rules that allow smoking areas in restaurants, provided that air filters or ventilation systems clear...
...Delta 767 taking off from Los Angeles on June 30 suddenly lost power in both engines at about 1,700 ft. when one of the pilots inadvertently bumped two fuel cutoff switches while in the process of reaching for an adjacent engine control switch. Passengers donned their life jackets and prepared for an emergency landing in the Pacific as the jet glided to within 600 ft. of the waves. At the last moment, the crew managed to restart the engines and resume the trip to Cincinnati, but the pilots were suspended on arrival. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately ordered...
Loud voices in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill quickly shifted the focus of attention from alleged spying at the current U.S. embassy to the already well-known Soviet bugging of the still unfinished new embassy chancery. Why bait the public with the Marine case, then switch to the new facility? Because, says a top Reagan aide, both cases "are part and parcel of the same problem -- a breakdown, or lack of existence, of counterintelligence." Perhaps. But no one has suggested that Marine guards had anything to do with the bugging of the new embassy...
...role of law enforcement officers has given way to pure myth. One crusading knight, in the character of Ness, is out to stop the terrorism of one arch villain. The Chicago gangster Al Capone. It doesn't matter that the legal touches of the dramatic ending--involving a switch of juries--are patently illegal...