Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation approved earlier this month a plan to alter the two University employee classifications...
Eventually, Coleman progresses to positions as salad man and garbage collector, but in the chronicle of his stay, Blue-Collar Journal, he never manages to ditch this early alter-ego. For while he maintains a certain down-to-earth, unpatronizing attitude toward the class he is visiting, the chunks of sociology he offers back up to us higher orders tumble back down upon his head, groundless, as often as they manage to make the grade. Coleman is forever uncertain of the proper distance to keep from his proletarian brothers, usually resolving the conflict between his roles as observer and participant...
...situation there is that he and Mitchell were continuing to talk. Proceeding along the same course they had been proceeding to locking their story, but my story did not fit with their story. And I just told them I refused to change, to alter my testimony...
Paradoxically, the federal courts and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have come to insist that race be used as a basis for pupil assignment. They have required the adoption of school assignment plans which are expressly designed to alter the racial composition of schools in a manner sufficient to satisfy some mysterious mathematical level deemed by the courts and the bureaucracy to be sociologically acceptable. It is, indeed, a great and sad irony that the federal courts and the federal bureaucracy would require the use of racial quotas and racial balancing to effectuate a constitutional principle which forbids...
...such as the police and the janitors, which accepted contracts worse than that offered to the printers, will demand that their wages rise to keep up with inflation. Harvard could afford to meet the demands of its workers for a living wage, without raising tuition--if it chose to alter its spending and investment priorities...