Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, said Novotny, "235 party organizations, embracing a little over 15,000 members, under the influence of ambiguous and incorrect views, made the request that an extraordinary congress of the party should be called." Novotny turned the idea down flat: the party line was correct and "we need not alter...
...concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure . . . The significance of this question of who is sick and who is sinful can not be laughed off as 'merely semantic' . . . No verbal tricks with definitions will alter the practical consequences, in our culture, of drawing the boundary between health and illness in one place rather than another...
...slight damper on our long-range planning." Department Store (Daniels & Fisher) President Joe Ross worried that the money shortage might cut back on Denver's "tremendous growth." Complained Ross: "The cost of expansion is prohibitive because of the money rates." But few businessmen had been forced to alter building and modernization plans. Actually, the elimination of marginal industrial expansion had been one of FRB's chief aims. With 1956 capital expenditures running 30% ahead of last year's rate, much expansion could be postponed without damage to the economy...
...only are the possibilities of judging physical fitness limited by the step-test method, Parker added, but the results can also vary greatly from day to day. "Factors such as a cold or lack of sleep can considerably alter the analysis," he said...
...waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...