Word: switching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leon, 56, works as an engineer for Montgomery County, Md., outside Washington. When Lee took the Hispanic name Leon, he asked the county to grant him preferential status under its affirmative-action program. Leon noted that he had a Spanish grandfather and claimed that he had been considering the switch for years, but he also confessed: "What's wrong with being an opportunist...
...immediate shutdown of five mid-Atlantic and New England nuclear power generators on the statistically improbable grounds that an earthquake might occur near by and cause them to pour out radioactive materials. U.S. oil consumption will quickly jump by 100,000 bbl. a day as the affected public utilities switch to increased production by oil-fired generators...
...less" for "fewer" ("Less students are enrolled this year than last"). The response was no better when he wanted to check out the more subtle misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence was correct as it stood. The quickest and surest correct answers to all three questions were provided by Little Rock's Montgomery, who mans his hot line during morning hours. His number...
Tripped in an old-new switch...
...sacked him in July. In fact, he makes his denials with all the sincere innocence of Captain Kidd. Last week, smiling broadly, he announced that the Kenyon & Eckhardt ad agency was quitting Ford after 34 years to take on the $120 million Chrysler account. It was the largest account switch in U.S. history...