Word: switches
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...speech is slow, deliberate—nothing gives away the voice that celebrates penalty shots or power play goals. There’s the stoicism of a switch hitter staring down a pitcher and the patience of a first baseman awaiting a throw from the shortstop...
...operators, such as Vodafone and T-Mobile, have invested billions of dollars and euros - over $100 billion alone just to buy government licenses - in 3G phone systems that use conventional arc designs. As operators struggle to make those four-year-old investments pay off, they're not about to switch to ArrayComm. Although ArrayComm was able to license its technology to Chinese and Japanese operators that deploy a more compatible mobile-phone system, Western operators have declined. So ArrayComm is selling to wireless Internet providers like Sydney's Personal Broadband Australia (in which ArrayComm is a partial owner) that...
Stone was also not afraid to switch the lines up throughout the game, particularly on special teams, where the positive results were most obvious. Harvard was 2-of-7 on the power play—improved from 1-of-9 the day before—while allowing no power play goals on six UMD tries, as compared to two allowed on the same number of penalty kills Saturday. Harvard also had an impressive 5-on-3 penalty kill with about 12 minutes left in the second period...
...expire by 2007 for retailers and publishing houses, last year newspapers attracted only 15.7% in total advertising outlay in France, compared to 43.5% in Germany, 39.7% in Britain and 31.4% in the U.S. Finally, the papers are hampered by rigid and expensive union contracts; a proposal to switch the afternoon Le Monde to the morning failed in part because the printers' union didn't want to work nights. "France's daily press has reached the end of the subsidized economy," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum, an association of newsroom executives. "Now reality sets...
...Though Jordan's royals have publicly united around the latest switch, tongues are still wagging about this new burst of palace infighting. In his dismissal letter, Abdullah said he had decided to "free" the Sandhurst graduate of his "symbolic" post in order to let him undertake unspecified responsibilities and missions. Hamzah's terse reply quoted a Koranic verse, saying simply, "Obey ... those charged with authority...