Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials with the union, Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union, expressed fear that the switch may eventually enable Harvard to replace its workers with non-union employees...
...some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw it, but the company had already made its point...
Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...
...officials with the union, Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union, expressed fear that the switch may eventually enable Harvard to replace its workers with non-union employees...
...flown unknowingly off course either by committing a 10° error in programming its inertial navigation system or by erroneously setting the Boeing 747 on a steady magnetic compass heading of 246° (an investigative series in London's Sunday Times showed how this could happen if a switch were left in the wrong position, disengaging the inertial navigation system). In either case, the crew would have been inexplicably careless in not using other means to verify the plane's location...