Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Store owners affected could not tell how the construction would alter their operations, since "everything is up in the air. No one is talking specifies." They seemed to believe, though, that modern shops in a distinctive location might bring new and expanded business. Western Union said it would continue service without any interference...
...death of President Kennedy, said Johnson, "did not alter his nation's purpose." He continued: "We are more than ever opposed to the doctrines of hate and violence-in our own land and around the world. We are more than ever committed to the rule of law -in our own land and around the world. And more than ever we support the United Nations, as the best instrument yet devised to promote the peace of the world and the well-being of mankind." The U.S., concluded Johnson, "wants sanity, security and peace for all, and above...
...than John Kennedy came to be in the theories and intricacies of economics-did not take part in the inner discussions that shaped the Kennedy economic policies. Though he is determined now to pursue the Kennedy economic programs that already have momentum, a new president is eventually bound to alter somewhat the course or the speed of such programs. Had President Kennedy been re-elected -by which time he expected the employment situation to be much improved -he planned to embark on a wide variety of new economic programs aimed at curing sectional dislocations in the economy. Whether Johnson will...
...conferees faced up to the fact that as the north grows in population and economic importance, some permafrost problems will become more severe. Sanitary Engineer Amos Alter, 47, chief engineer of the Alaska Department of Health, detailed some of the elaborate methods now being tried for heating and pumping sewage in his burgeoning cities. And in a far-out speculation of his own, he suggested that in the future arctic liquids and wastes could be purified and recycled in "some sort of closed-circuit arrangement" that would treat whole cities in the manner now planned for two-man space capsules...
Asked whether the U.S. should alter its military strategy and bomb the Communist capital of Hanoi, Barry replied, "I don't think so. It does us no good to bomb a city and kill a million innocent people. Now, I think if we were to bomb a port and hamper their supply lines, that would be different...