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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally, in a Buck Rogers phase that assumes rapid advances in fuel-cell technology, it calls for a massive switch to cars, buses and trucks powered by electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Drastic Plan to Banish Smog | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Mike Vukonich has mono? Hartje will do his job. Lane MacDonald can't play at RPI? Don't worry, Hartje will switch to wing. He adapts to any situation...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Harvard Hockey's Utility Man | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Karen Everling confused the Penn defense with a stick switch before blasting home the first goal. With 11:36 remaining in the half, she stunned DiDomenico with another...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Post Victory, Trounce Quakers, 5-1 | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Like their more numerous Hispanic and Asian counterparts, the undocumented "new Irish" switch jobs often, worry about the costs of sickness without Medicaid, and can do little but gnash their teeth when family crises occur in their homeland, because to leave the U.S. might mean never to return. "You often find them trying to put on New York accents while they serve you in a restaurant, just so they can meld into the background and not be found out," says Ray O'Hanlon, the national editor of the New York City-based Irish Echo newspaper. "This is rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Re-Greening of America | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Though Atwater claims the country has already "entered into a post-civil rights era; civil rights are not the driving force," racial politics are still with us. As demonstrated by the continuing southern white switch to the Republican Party and the heavy Black vote for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, civil rights are still an issue...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Race and the G.O.P. | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

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