Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then to involve students? Rosovsky points out that students can't reasonably expect the committee to put the proposed slate of courses up for a referendum at this late date. Once the Core committees have selected their courses they are unlikely to alter willingly their choices in response to students' objections. But Rosovsky fails to acknowledge that students should have participated when the committees began drafting and debating possible courses earlier in the year...
...nothing came easily to the man who thought "Bully!" was a rallying cry, not an accusation. He fought for every office: erstwhile superiors feared that they would soon be at his mercy. They were right to tremble; even as a young assistant secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt managed to alter foreign policy. Almost singlehanded he turned the U.S. from isolation to expansion. He was determined to free Cuba from Spain, annex Hawaii and, with luck, drive the British out of Canada...
...letter restates the position of the Harvard Corporation that the best means to alter corporate behavior in South Africa and help South African blacks is "to vote as a shareholder and continue to communicate in other ways with management...
...Pinyin is the biggest problem we have ever faced," said Richard R. Randall, executive secretary of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The board will have to alter thousands of traditional spellings on now outdated Chinese maps. Among the unhappy Sinologists was Tufts University Professor Donald Klein. Said he: "It's driving me up the wall. It's hard enough to get my students to remember such names as the Yangtze River. If I now have to change it to Chang Jiang, it would confuse them beyond hope...
...hospitable reception to a big, unexpected outlay in these tight times. Earlier, Congress had been expected to offer stout resistance to an Administration proposal for a $159 million increase, to $6 billion, in economic and military aid worldwide for fiscal 1980. Last week's events probably will not alter that prospect dramatically, but they at least raise the possibility that the nation might be moved to renovate and expand its enervated foreign assistance program-if it can just be shown clearly the advantages of doing...