Word: alter
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Administrators said that the existence of on-campus bars at other schools, such as Brown University, was not enough to alter their decision...
Hundreds of students were forced to alter their course schedule yesterday after discovering that several government junior seminars and two Core Curriculum courses were among 31 canceled classes for the spring semester...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Faced with the collapse of Atlantic fisheries and disturbing declines in the Pacific, the Clinton Administration said Friday it would impose strict regulations that could close many areas to fishing and significantly alter fishing practices in U.S. territorial waters. The cost has been severe. The cod populations of the Grand Banks have fallen 95 percent. Populations of breeding-age Atlantic bluefin tuna have fallen more than 90 percent. In many places, the losses of commercial fish stocks have been catastrophic, and in the last decade tens of thousands of fishermen have been forced to abandon their boats...
...anonymity, critics charge that confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine samples so that they can be tested for drug use. Moreover, professional testers say that idiosyncrasies in sampling time or diet could alter results seriously. Some herbal teas, for example, can give false indications of heroin use. Personal Health and Hygiene, the company formed by Brown to market his kit, maintains that all potential snafus will be explained and that all test results will be confirmed prior to release to customers. No word...
...look strangely like little adults act grown up as well. "The children who participate in these contests are extremely intelligent as well as extremely attractive," says LaCour. "They can hold a conversation with anybody. They're quick thinkers; they have to be--they have to know how to alter a long-practiced routine if someone ahead of them has just done what they were planning to do. They have what's known in the industry as the 'whole package.'" JonBenet Ramsey may have had that but, notes LaCour, "There are hundreds more just like...