Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force. An objection to that idea was that the cost of new defenses further back would be at least $50 million, above and beyond the $250 million that Israel has spent on its present positions. In the end, however, Rabin rejected it mainly because such a move would radically alter the disengagement agreement itself, which he considered unwise politically. Since Israel was already contemplating a thinout if its Sinai forces in order to cut defense expenditures, Rabin decided to gain some political advantage from the move. The announcement was rushed off to Austria by way of the American embassy...
Indeed, in an educationally more complex, pluralistic society, Harvard is no longer in a position to devise reforms that will alter the quality or nature of the nation's institutions of higher learning, as it did in 1945. In fact, given the attitudes of Faculty members in a research-oriented university like Harvard, Rosovsky's study will have achieved no little success if it is able to maintain the Faculty interest in undergraduate education elicited by its initial stage...
...talent outside the Congress. It would also blur the separation of Executive and Legislative powers set forth in the Constitution, a distinction that is basic to the American system of government. There is no guarantee, either, that giving Cabinet members a political home to retreat to after resignation would alter what appears to be a basic reluctance of Americans in power to resign publicly on an issue of principle...
...Legislation that would give airlines and truckers less governmental protection against competition from new firms entering their industries, plus inducements to merge for greater efficiency and permission to alter some rates without CAB or ice approval...
...fortune and glory, instead of staying at home with Solveig, the woman she loves him. Peer travels not only from Norway to Africa, peasant's hut to mad house, and youth to old age, but into a fantasy world as well. And the trolls and amorphous spirits he meets alter his life so drastically that the border between reality and fantasy becomes obscure...