Word: switches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the next year, FAS computer services plans to change to a "switch network", which gives each user a personal bandwidth...
Mike Cavanaugh, a 10-year veteran of the Harvard force, has accepted a University buyout of his Harvard contract--and accepted a job offer from SSI. He'll switch uniforms, but he will likely remain in place at Lowell House...
...shouldn't they? It's not as if Ventura pulled off a political bait-and-switch last November. Minnesotans who voted for Ventura knew they were electing a controversial, outspoken man liable to say things that would annoy or offend large segments of the population. Indeed, for many this was precisely the reason to vote for Ventura: he was the anti-politician, speaking his mind without first taking a poll, pulling no punches. A vote for Ventura was a vote against politics-as-usual, as epitomized by Bill Clinton...
...third category of risk takers ought to be encouraged to switch to less dangerous pursuits unless they are single and have no children, lovers or friends. The often heard statement "It's my life, and I'll do whatever I want with it" simply does not apply to those who do not conform to the above requirements. ALFONSO M. COLLA Rome...
Granted, as TIME reported last April, numerous FORTUNE 500 firms, from Xerox to Kodak, have already made the big pension switch--moving millions of employees from the traditional system, which rewards longevity and piles up cash in a worker's last years of service, to more flexible, so-called cash-balance plans. The new model lets workers build up their nest eggs at a steadier pace and take the balance from job to job. It is more consistent with today's career cycle. But when IBM announced its conversion in May, thousands of middle-aged IBM workers, hardly known...