Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What these naval officers, Hebert, and even Zumwalt fail to understand is that a ship at sea is not isolated, not immune to conflicts originated in Newark or Baton Rouge. Instead, human relations are intensified, conflicts blown out of proportion. Discipline may repress the discussion, official commands may alter the symptoms, but the underlying problems remain...
Epic of Narcissism. One reason-perhaps the main reason-why Samaras has been such an upsetting presence in New York is that his privacy alter nates with moments of obsessive, and for some people embarrassing self-display. Thus in 1964 he took the whole contents of the room he had occupied in his parents' house and exhibited them at the Green Gallery ("In my mind I was giving myself the honor of making my living space as important as any thing else, before posterity had the chance to do it or not do it"), giving his mess the dignity...
RACE. Nixon shows little evident interest in America's most serious continuing challenge: race relations. He feels no political obligation to blacks, who again voted overwhelmingly Democratic. While apparently retreating from school integration, Nixon offers no plan to help blacks move into white neighborhoods and thus alter racial housing and school-district patterns. He is expected to appoint more blacks to Government posts, perhaps even the Cabinet, which might make a significant symbolic point but could have little practical effect. While the ghettos have not been burning, racial discontent remains a potentially explosive problem...
Nancy Glimcher '74, a member of the committee, said yesterday that the Coop may decide to alter its present charge policy with Baker after a conference with the owner on Tuesday...
...developer is under no legal commitment to alter the proposed tower, but local neighborhood groups have indicated they will continue to fight any building that they feel is detrimental to the Square environment. The civic groups have said they are most concerned about the bulk and design of the building, parking facilities, and traffic flow...