Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticized by politicians for lavishing too much of their resources on high-yielding multinational investments and not enough on low-cost housing and other socially desirable projects in their own localities. Last week the New York State legislature moved to resolve the issue in a way that could conceivably alter the face of banking across the country. The Assembly's Committee on Banks began a series of hearings on a strongly supported bill to create a publicly financed, state-operated bank that would compete for business with private financial institutions...
...strong right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk of his $551,500 estate when Hoover died...
Central Market. Much of Wall Street's long-range future will be determined by pending legislation that would drastically alter the structure of the securities markets. Stalled last year because of successful lobbying efforts by the securities industry, the revived measures have now cleared the Senate and are likely to pass the House by the end of this month. Among their many features would be an order to the SEC to begin moving toward establishing a single, truly national securities market, supplanting the hodgepodge of regional exchanges that now exist. Some actions have already been taken toward the "central...
Perhaps the only thing that could alter such harsh and final judgments is evidence from Saigon that the worst fears of the Administration are justified, that the aid is indeed the price and ransom of bringing the Americans out of there safely...
...York City. To offer such theories in an age that regards ethnic determinism with the deepest suspicion clearly takes nerve. Ordeal, however,.is not antiSemitic. At its best it is a provocative revisionist ramble through the received ideas of the past hundred years, which encourages readers to alter their conceptions of the world. Cuddihy's presentation is flawed by excessive zeal. If a Jew utters a word like coarse, he automatically triggers, in Cuddihy's mind, visions of the primal scream. (Though, as Freud once pointed out, sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.) Cuddihy also...