Word: switching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boat has done well since the switch. But perhaps it's just the novelty of the switch," Strong says. "It may just be the way things work with one person sitting behind another...
...Days buffs; Showtime, HBO's biggest rival in pay-cable programming, aims many of its specials at an audience aged 40 to 45. A 1978 survey by Young & Rubicam and A.C. Nielsen Co. found that people whose sets are hooked to cable have highly "fragmented" viewing habits. They switch a lot from channel to channel rather than keeping their eyes glued to one for hours. But the survey concluded that viewers do not tune out network shows to tune in cable. Rather they watch cable at times that they otherwise would have the set turned off. Ratings for network...
Harvard led for the first time when freshman Annie Macmillan scored the first goal of the second half. Macmillan came in right-handed, then pulled a quick switch and shot the ball in left-handed...
...great education for a critic: "I couldn't help learning what does and does not work well on stage." At Harvard, Rich decided he didn't work well on stage, gave up acting, and moved to the gallery as drama critic for the Crimson. He attributes his switch to film criticism to inspiration from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and to overexposure. "You could see more movies in Cambridge in a week than in a year in Washington," he says. Before joining TIME as a film reviewer in 1977, he spent two years starring in that role...
...expected to exceed 45% when all the five-year follow-ups are completed. For professional therapists, many of whom believe that such conversions are rare or impossible, this is likely to be the book's most surprising statistic. It would mean that a permanent, or at least longterm, switch to heterosexuality is possible more than half the time among gays who are highly motivated to change...