Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Graduate School of Education started an elite program this fall to help professionals switch to teaching in midcareer. One of the seven "students" in the pilot program is Jim Selman, 59. With his children through college and his mortgage paid off, Selman is quitting his $50,000-a-year job as an electrical engineer at Mitre Corp. Mitre is paying Selman's $8,320 tuition. When he finishes the program, which includes 14 weeks of student teaching, Selman will be accredited to teach science and math in Massachusetts schools, and he is looking forward to being...
...pain to operate." Massachusetts Attorney Thomas Christo, who specializes in computer law, says intense competition leads to hard-sell tactics that hurt the customer. Among them: "low balling," that is, selling a computer that has an attractively low price but is too small to be useful, and "bait and switch," trading up a low-balled customer to a more expensive model. Says Christo: "The vendor is the fox among the lambs...
...first half of this century the most expensive yachts ever built, the majestic J boats, were used, but economy forced the switch to the current 12-meter boats in the 1950s. If the Australian syndicate wanted to switch to Sunfish, rafts with bedsheet sails, or Spanish galleons, they could. Switching the Cup to a board sailing, wave-jumping competition would do much to bring Cup racing within the grasp of everyone who ever said "I think I could do that...
...Michael S. Dukakis kicked off the station switch, personally inspecting the new sites on Wednesday, August 31. At 10 p.m. the next evening, the Harvard/Holyoke tracks carried their last car, and the construction crew worked feverishly over the Labor Day weekend, drilling and hammering past midnight, and pulling in double and triple overtime pay. (Authority officials picked the weekend to make the transition, when commuter use would be relatively light. In the interim, the MBTA provided free bus rides to and from Kendall Square...
Back in the passenger cabins, by KAL's usual procedures the women flight attendants would now switch to native Korean dress. The bright and multicolored costumes include long skirts (chima) and short, flared blouses (chogori). They had orange juice and sandwich wedges on hand for the tourist passengers, fancy snacks of chicken florentine, zucchini au gratin, rice and cheddar croquettes, and soba, a Japanese broth, for the first-class travelers. Everything presumably would have seemed normal as the passengers munched and dozed their way toward Seoul...