Word: alter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that two or three cups of coffee a day may cut the risk of developing gallstones by 40%. Filtered, instant and espresso all seem to do the trick. But other caffeinated drinks, like tea and cola, don't. Researchers think coffee may help flush out the gallbladder and somehow alter bile fluid...
Furthermore, Burson says negotiations do not necessarily have to involve a give-and-take process--it is possible for one party to refuse to alter its demands...
Clete says Harvard is no exception to this trend. He says he is not surprised by Harvard's attempts to try to bring Local 254 contract more into "market" value or alter HUCTW's health benefits...
...Jellis says there are no plans to alter thepractice of electing class marshals at thebeginning of the fall semester. Without electingthe marshals any earlier, it is unlikely that theselection process will get off to a much quickerstart...
Buckley's judgment is more complex in The Redhunter, an ingeniously symmetrical drama of the origins and psychology of communism and anticommunism. He has invented a young alter ego, Harry Bontecou, who goes to work for Joe McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid...