Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Harvard reassures you that switching concentrations is not difficult or unusual, many counselors forget to tell first-year students one harsh fact of life that complicates this process--honors requirements. Basically, it can be very difficult, even as a mid-year sophomore, to switch to another concentration and still fulfill honors requirements...
...gasoline was well timed. Hours after EC-1's debut, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved a sweeping 20-year plan to clean up Southern California's atmosphere. President Bush put additional pressure on oil companies in June, when he unveiled an antipollution proposal that included a switch to cleaner automotive fuels, including natural gas and methanol, in smog-choked parts of the country...
...called himself "the education President" but budgeted little more for schools than did Reagan. His proposals to cut violent crime by doubling federal prison cells sounded commendable, but even top aides acknowledge that the construction program will have almost no effect on the problem. This bait-and-switch game is considered clever in Washington but not in many other places. Democrats are sure to seize on the rhetoric-reality gap in next year's congressional elections...
...bank that issues Joey's MasterCard pays Pan Am a penny or so for each mile awarded -- about $100 in this case.) Lessons for us: Resist those tempting blank checks your credit-card company sometimes sends (unless you're really looking for a way to borrow money at 19.8%). Switch to a credit card that offers frequent-flyer miles. (If you're charging things, you might as well get a free trip once in a while.) Don't mess with my pal Joey...
...identical twins, Eugene and Herbert Perry, and cast them as Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. This provides all kinds of ironies on the brotherhood of master and man, but it also obliterates the no less important differences between them. Thus in the famous scene in which the two switch costumes so that the servant can court one of his master's ladies, Sellars' twins make a meaningless exchange of their leather jackets...