Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months, the President has been urged not only by business but also by Democratic leaders in Congress to alter his tax plans. Al Ullman, the House Ways and Means chairman, has been pleading with Carter for a "minimalist" rather than a "maximalist" tax bill. He warned the President not to heed the arguments of White House hard-liners on reform. House Speaker Tip O'Neill was equally emphatic. The only way to get a tax bill through Congress, he insisted, was to put tax reduction ahead of reform-and separate them. If the two elements were joined...
...sales in the fiscal year ended Oct. 29 rose almost 30%, to $1.5 billion. Profits, it is true, dropped 14.4%, to $35 million, but they were coming back up in the final quarter. Labor's hope is that the new higher penalties for violating a national injunction will alter the rules of battle and Stevens will suddenly find that it no longer pays to fight...
This play is likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...
...followers tried everything their mathematical brains could think of but the Engineers' manipulations couldn't alter the plain fact that when the Harvard-MIT fencing match ended at 10:15 last night the score added up to a 15-12 victory for the Crimson...
Paul said in the future he may consider assigning the duties of the admissions subcommittee on minority students to the other subcommittees, since the medical school is the only graduate school in the University with a minority subcommittee. He said he will proceed "cautiously" in order not to alter the percentage of minority students admitted to the medical school...