Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Think of the poor hospital officals calling up the Amzallags and telling them about the switch up. Guffaw, guffaw. And then the two families quietly ushered into a private room at the hospital to exchange infants they thought were they...
...computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes were scattered among a rogues' gallery of electronic lowlife...
...decision to switch to the Plympton St. bookshop was prompted by dissatisfaction with the Coop's handling of book supplies and deadlines that were too restrictive for the department, Marius said...
...open the second period, Harvard replaced number one goaltender Jennifer White with fellow freshman Rebecca Margulies. But the switch didn't affect the onrushing Crimson, who added four goals over the course of the stanza, or the Eagles, whose scoring opportunities continued to be an endangered species...
...Hearst has little to lose by shaking things up. San Francisco has never been blessed with a top-grade daily newspaper, nor is the marketplace really competitive. In a joint-operating pact, signed in 1965, to guarantee the survival of both papers, the Examiner agreed to switch to afternoon publication. Since then the two papers have shared printing and distribution costs. They also split revenues, thus ensuring that the Examiner will have a healthy bottom line despite running a poor second to the Chronicle...