Word: switches
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Since drawing circles and lines is not really "writing," third-graders must be taught writing all over again. Schools switch to one of several cursive systems based on the fanciful scripts taught elementary the U.S. in the 18th and writing. centuries, in-the Spencerian style vigorously promoted in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer, a scribe and teacher. All these cursive systems, of which the most familiar is probably the variation devised by another teacher, Austin Palmer, are full of accident-prone loops that only a 19th century copper engraver could properly master. Teachers get as discouraged as students...
...during Pusey's administration that the students began to use more militant means to achieve their ends. In 1961, for example, Pusey drew heavy criticism for his decision to have all University diplomas printed in English--a switch from the traditional Latin. The controversy culminated in a huge student protest, in which several hundred students surrounded 17 Quincy St. They held signs that read "Latin, si, Pusey, no," and Pusey finally came out and addressed them in Latin. Few of the protesters understood, driving home the point that no one could understand what Harvard diplomas said either...
...said yesterday that he made the switch because the newly created position at MGH offered "greater opportunities for long range financial planning." By the end of 1984, the department plans to hire 100 researchers and move into MGH's Wellman Research Building, which is still under construction...
...fears are beginning to surface that cheaper oil will induce consumers to return to their old wasteful habits. The lower price could indeed push consumption up, but worries of a huge short-term surge in demand are unreasonable. It is true that industrial users with burners equipped to switch quickly from gas to oil are doing so. A 1979 Government study suggests that the U.S. could consume an extra 500,000 bbl. per day of oil (a 3% rise in total consumption) if such switching became widespread. But otherwise the short-term response is likely to be limited. Explains Economist...
...best-known attribute, but Uncle Sam is becoming one of the greatest salesmen since P.T Barnum. Switch on a radio or TV set, flip through a newspaper or magazine, and there he is, in one guise or another. Here is the U.S. Postal Service, sniping at Federal Express, Emery, Purolator and other private-sector small-package carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school...