Word: alterable
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Perhaps the most important argument for selling the planes to the Saudis is that such a transaction would not alter the essential military fact of the Middle East: Israel's overwhelming superiority. If the Israeli lobby in Washington should succeed in quashing the deal, it could be a severe blow to U.S. national interest. The Saudis have made it clear that they would not only be angry and disappointed but would take their business elsewhere. France, for example, would be only too glad to sell them its own latest jet fighters, the Mirages F-1 and 2000, with...
...would not have taken so very much, alter all. Most of the people who followed Bok down Mass Ave are hardly fringe extremists. They had asked more politely to speak to Bok on several occasions; Bok declined to make appointments in his office, declined to address rallies, declined to respond to most questions at the Corporation hearing. If Bok had only turned around and acknowledged--as Deans Fox and Epps did later--that the students might have a point about the role of U.S. corporations, he would undoubtedly have been left alone. (Probably he would have been left alone...
...White House in a state of frenzy, flipping between the offices of Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat, who was still writing the President's speech. Said one White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing it was irreversible, attempting to shore up his own position by making additions to Eizenstat's drafts. He finally persuaded Eizenstat to insert a new paragraph in the President's speech declaring that Strauss would become a member of the steering committee...
...focus precisely on the retina but rather in front of it, either because the eyeball is too long or because the cornea and lens bend light rays too much. Just as orthodontists use braces to correct the position of crooked teeth, orthokeratologists employ hard contact lenses to alter the curvature of the cornea to improve vision. At least 300 optometrists now specialize in "ortho-k," and tens of thousands of Americans are believed to have undergone the increasingly popular treatment...
...certain disciplines to constitute the core requirements for a liberal arts education. By designating certain areas of study as more important than others, the Core runs against the grain of a diverse student body, whose members pursue unusual subjects in depth. Forcing students to homogenize through the Core would alter the character of Harvard...