Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they had expected. Last spring, Whitlock had predicted a two-year delay in implementing the core; the three honchos now say the Faculty may well approve the initial changes in the requirement structure this year, although they pledge they won't drastically affect any students who are unable to alter their schedules in time to graduate...
...Summer School plans to admit more talented high school students--located through test scores--next summer. And since any profits the Summer School makes go right back into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget, it's hard to see how anyone here during the year could alter the suggestion that it's hard on these high school students, many of whom seem to believe a summer in the Yard is an automatic entree to the College...
...weather-forecasting system. Control Data had eagerly sought the necessary Commerce Department export license. To allay fears that the computer might be diverted to military purposes, the company pledged that its own technicians would tend the machine, which would be programmed to cry foul at the first attempt to alter its mission...
What is more, sociobiology may have appeared at the right cultural moment. The 1970s have brought with them growing impatience and disillusionment over failed educational and environmental experiments designed to alter social behavior. The concept of social theorists that man is infinitely malleable and perfectible has fallen into disfavor. At such a time the emergence of a doctrine preaching that man is caught in history, able to exercise free will only within the limits set by his genes, may do very well indeed...
...rather as a locust, the guise in which he usually appears. He makes Linda's eyes glow and flings her postpubescent body about like a beanbag. Soon she is back in that bedroom in Georgetown, where Burton tries to rip the heart - literally - out of her possessed alter...