Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the ice cream was served to Hughes the next day, he ate it and declared, "That's great ice cream, but it's time for a change. From now on, I want French vanilla." appointed a relative newcomer to the organization as his alter-ego and chief representative to the outside world: Robert Maheu, a former CIA and FBI operative. Hughes built Maheu a $640,000 mansion on the grounds of the Desert...
...proposals, which the Faculty has not yet considered, would alter the CRR's student-faculty ratio, disallow the introduction of hearsay evidence against students, and revise the committee's charter...
...regime, the University exhibits a drastic leap of faith. The acceptance of the grant should not be construed as an acceptance on the University's part of the policies of the Korean regime, nor should the grant create any pressure on members of the East Asian Research Center to alter their attitudes toward Korea. The money, detached from any outside pressures, could be a meaningful contribution to the furtherance of the Center's research, despite the dubious nature of its source...
...overtime agreement stipulated that a list of all overtime openings be posted and that records of who has worked overtime be available to all guards. These steps are designed to alter the current situation where just a few guards get to work overtime, Travers said...
...little more than a memory. Onetime killers like measles and chicken pox have been downgraded into childhood diseases capable of producing lasting immunities in their survivors. Inoculation and modern sanitation have all but eliminated smallpox. Cholera remains endemic only on the Indian subcontinent. But, McNeill concludes, "knowledge and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life." Microbes have already shown that they are more flexible than man, and can move easily from animal hosts into humans. The swine flu virus seems to be making the jump today. No one can guess which...