Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither Wall Streeters nor airline executives think the improvement so far this year will do much to alter the long-range problems of the industry, even though the spring quarter's performance appears to have canceled out the $115.3 million lost by the major trunks during the year's winter quarter. Most analysts expect the big lines' profits to be in the $300 million range, about where they were in the mid-1960s, when costs were far lower and passengers flocked to the then novel technology of commercial jet travel. But that would be far less than...
Says Lutz: "Those views were always wrong, but to alter them we had to make some minor design changes and a major effort to improve our reputation." The worst problem was with the top-of-the-line Granada: sales fell from 110,677 in 1972 to 40,786 in 1974. At Lutz's insistence, the ride was hardened (Europeans like "the feel of the road"), the power steering was made less sensitive and minor external styling changes eliminated the American look...
BUSING. Soon after a federal judge reshuffled students and desegregated public high schools in Pasadena, Calif., population shifts re-created some predominantly black schools. But by a 6-to-2 vote the Supreme Court last week decided that courts cannot alter the new imbalance since "these shifts were not attributed to any segregative actions" by school officials. While not disagreeing with the general principle, Dissenter Marshall did not believe that full desegregation had occurred in Pasadena. He feared, as a result, that judicial supervision of integration will now relax as soon as an initial "school attendance zone scheme [is] successful...
right of the people to alter or to abolish...
...liberty and the pursuit of happiness." To secure these rights, Jefferson went on, men establish governments winch derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." And when any government becomes destructive of the safety and happiness of the people, "it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...