Word: switches
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Over a year ago, on this same page, I called for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman to follow his political instincts and officially switch parties, thereby sacrificing his powerful political position in the pursuit of transparency regarding his motives and party status. Yesterday, after a year in which the Connecticut senator called the McCain-Palin candidacy the “real ticket for change” and suggested his own party’s candidate did not “put country first,” the Democratic Party failed to make this change for Lieberman by stripping...
...Last Wednesday Paulson pulled what some have called the TARP-and-switch. The Treasury Secretary said he was backing away from using a large portion of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program fund to buy up troubled mortgage bonds. Instead, Paulson said he was more interested in helping the currently stalled market for financing among other things credit card and auto loans...
...switch? "The facts changed and the situation worsened," Paulson said during the Q&A. He kept coming back to that phrase, "the facts changed," in what seemed to be a conscious reference to economist John Maynard Keynes' famous line, "When the facts change, I change my mind." As Paulson put it in an answer to another question, "I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change...
...starting this Monday, they’ll need to flip them upside down. Instead of using the large stripe, students will need to start swiping with the smaller stripe to get into dining halls, to use Crimson Cash or Board Plus, and for M2 shuttle rides. The decision to switch to the small stripe was made for security purposes, according to Harvard University Dining Services officials. “It’s just a more secure technology,” said Crista Martin, director of marketing and communications for HUDS. “Separating personal information from that transaction...
...board or lengthening classes, we could instead adopt a cellular service style pay-per-minute lateness plan. Is Expos in your five? Or maybe we could borrow CNN’s hologram technology, such that we could be beamed into lecture each morning. If that fails we could switch to “Stanford time,” in which lateness is excused up to three hours. If the CUE decides to proceed with any readjustments to our schedules, we hope they consider a creative solution. In this era of transition, let’s be sure we take...