Word: switches
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Colombia is rich in rebels, but the government of President Virgilio Barco has slowly been coming to terms with them. The first to switch from outlaw group to political party is M-19, a 1970s leftist band of middle-class guerrillas who moved from symbolic displays of conscience, like holding "hostage" the sword of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar, to acts of terror and violence. In 1985 M-19 bungled a takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice, triggering a battle with government forces that left more than 100 dead...
...parents seemed to think that this piece of 16th century logic, combined with a bit of Texas grit and determination, would make my switch from life as an only child in Dallas to life with at least four roommates in the Northeast an easy...
...wrapping and stretching of magnetic-field lines is also believed to be responsible for the spots' appearing progressively closer to the solar equator and the switch of magnetic polarities after each cycle. But ingenious as it seems, the dynamo model of the sun may need some serious revision. Astronomer Richard Altrock, at Sacramento Peak, has observed a brightening of the sun's corona that begins near the poles -- just when the first sunspots of a cycle break out around 35 degrees latitude -- then slowly progresses toward the equator. The brightening, he suspects, marks the beginning of still another cycle, long...
...power plants can achieve the reduction any way they want. They can install scrubbers on smokestacks, switch to burning low-sulfur coal or adopt new technology for cleaner burning of high-sulfur coal. Moreover, they can trade what would amount to pollution rights. If one utility cuts sulfur- dioxide emissions more than the law requires, it can sell the unused portion of the emissions it is allowed to another company that is having trouble meeting its standard. While the total reduction would be the same, both companies would cut costs: the seller because it would get extra money...
...phone, the alumni shared career crises--some denied partner status, others yearning to switch jobs, many balancing child-rearing with work. They shared family concerns--making payments on their first suburban home, divorcing, paying hospital bills. These are circumstances that we'll encounter as well. But the difference between a Harvard education for this class and the alumni before us is not to be found in mundane events...