Word: alter
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...development of symbolic thought and complex communication did nothing less than alter human evolution. For one thing, high-tech transportation means that the world, though ethnically diverse, now really consists of a single, huge population. "Everything we know about evolution suggests that to get true innovation, you need small, isolated populations," says Tattersall, "which is now unthinkable...
...missiles at 359 targets this year alone (and flown about 65 percent of the number of missions carried out during the Kosovo conflict). The low-key air war, which followed four days of intense bombing in response to a showdown on arms control last December, has failed to alter the strategic equation in Iraq. With Iraq?s leaders and its anti-aircraft gunners as defiant as ever, the administration is now debating whether to up the ante...
DAILY Continue to alter appearance in alarming ways...
...WHRB said they felt the broadcasts are significant enough for the station to alter its programming plans...
Well not really. In truth, those lines come from a two-year old Time Magazine article, invoked recently by public-policy advocate Ted Halstead. The article and Halstead both seek to alter that common image branded upon those born between 1965 to 1978, Generation X. Enough to make anyone schizophrenic, Generation Xers first had to face their parents' scorn as lazy, slothful, ungrateful children, and more recently are stereotyped as innovative go-getters, technology mavens and upstart venture capitalists. Yet for the Glasgow-based ensemble, who are garnering quite a following on both sides of the Atlantic, the duality almost...