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Corporation members emphasize that they try to be consistent on issues over the years. But the ACSR which has five or six new members each year, it has been suggested, might be inclined to switch positions on a particular issue. But while the ACSR is able to change its recommendation on an issue, the Corporation, Putnam says, has got to have a "damn good reason" to switch positions. For instance, in 1981 the ACSR and the Corporation both opposed a resolution asking American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) to set up a review committee on a nuclear weapons laboratory. When...
...immersed in computers that he talked to no one, headed straight to his terminal after school and barely sat down for meals. The only way his father could get him away from the terminal was to go down to the cellar and throw the house's main power switch, cutting off all electricity...
...Name the only switch-hitter to collect at least 100 hits in a season both right-handed and left-handed...
...near-illiterate renegade who has just emerged from five months of solitary foraging in the Mojave Desert. Thrown together in their mother's house--she is vacationing in Alaska and her well-behaved son is baby-sitting her plants--the do-good and the no-good brothers clash, switch roles, and clash again...
This conciliatory line is no spur-of-the-moment switch but a calculated strategy. When the White House staff gathered at Camp David with Reagan's pollsters and outside advisers for a political planning session in early February-the President himself was absent-all agreed that Reagan ought to show more sympathy to the poor and to racial and religious minorities. The President, whose own political antennas had picked up the growing public unease, did not have to be sold. Again, when Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker warned Reagan three weeks ago that his gibes against congressional critics...