Word: switching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuse to buy. To critics who argue that such conversions are driving out the cash-shy old and young, realtors respond rather unpersuasively that condos and co-ops have stabilized neighborhoods and kept them up by giving the middle class the advantages and responsibilities of ownership. But the big switch to apartment ownership will make it harder for many Americans to find apartments at prices they can afford...
...children's emotional lives, and, as Chodorow explains, ensures the cycle's repetition: in what she calls the psychological "reproduction" of mothering, the daughter will try to solve her difficulties with Mother by having a child of her own. Late in life, there may even be a switch of roles, with Mama herself demanding mothering. For example, says Friday, Mother will ask: "How is it that you can't come see me on weekends when all I've ever done is be your mother...
...reduce consumption will require not only heroic conservation but also costly development of domestic sources and a switch to alternative fuels. Today's crisis may mean that needed reforms will get fresh attentions and new support. "Congress now realizes the seriousness ot the situation," says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. " It is necessary to take advantage of short-term emergencies to sell the need for unpopular measures...
...with flowers. Up, up and away. Fly now, pay later. You're in safe hands. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Good to the last drop. The high-priced spread. Tastes good like a cigarette should. Leave the driving to us. I'd rather fight than switch. When it rains, it pours. We try harder. It floats. A diamond is forever...
...NATION'S LARGEST electric power utility and leading investor in strip-mined coal and nuclear power is encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...