Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support on what his own state gets in return, and his stands are even harder to categorize than Kerr's. On many issues -such as antitrust legislation-Russell seems proper heir to his father's red-clay radicalism. But. like Kerr, Long bitterly fights any attempt to alter the oil-depletion tax allowance, is opposed to tax crackdowns on business expense accounts...
...recent revision by the College Scholarship Service of the tables correlating family income with expected contribution toward college costs may alter the distribution of scholarship funds next year. Henry P. Briggs, Jr. "54, director of Freshman Scholarships, said that the new schedules would result in more aid to students from lower income families, and a corresponding decrease in aid to those from higher income families...
...went on shift in Fontana, Calif., last week, 7,000 employees of the Kaiser Steel Corp. stopped off at improvised polling booths at the plant gates. By an overwhelming 74% vote, the Kaiser workers agreed to give a four-year trial to an experimental labor contract that may ultimately alter the tone of collective bargaining...
Wood declared that he had "no doubt" that Congress would soon recognize the urgent need to change this situation and alter the requirements for federal grants...
Royboy refused to admit defeat. "I will go on fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily insisted that it was "our duty" to okay Nyasaland's secession. To soothe a strong bloc of pro-Welensky Tories, he said that he would visit Central Africa early next year to look into the chances of preserving a union between the two Rhodesias...