Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition in the credit-card business intensifies, many lenders are blatantly trying to lure customers from rivals. People's Bank of Connecticut, which charges an unusually low 11.5% interest on its MasterCard, will lend people the money they need to pay off other credit-card balances and switch to its card. Buffalo-based Empire of America bank now offers its customers a novel choice. They can pay 18% interest on purchases with a Visa Classic card and enjoy the traditional 30-day grace period, or they can pay just 13.7% on a Visa Lite and tote up interest from...
...student comes up to you after class to ask if she can switch sections. You should...
...turn off the main power switch in the lecture hall and accidently kill all the electricity...
...others, the switch pointed to dismaying presidential fuzziness, if not outright deceit, about a vital matter of foreign policy. Scoffed one Senator: "The President can't remember which version is true and which is the cover story." The lawmaker added that Reagan's memory has noticeably deteriorated; just before his prostate surgery in January, he approved a major intelligence "finding," but two weeks later could not remember...
...switch in the President's testimony stirred new speculation that he is being manipulated by his chief of staff. Once again there were calls for Regan's head. This time the President responded by saying that if the chief of staff wanted to resign, he would not try to dissuade him. Though Regan's well- publicized feud with Nancy Reagan deepened, and rumors persisted that he would leave in the next week or so, the chief of staff expressed his determination to stay...