Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon, too, is attempting to alter the course of recent decades with a radical innovation. When he returned to Washington last week, he sent Congress his detailed recommendations for "general" revenue sharing, which in its first full year of operation would give the states and municipalities $5 billion in new federal money-along with near-total freedom in spending it. The President faces strong opposition as he presses forward with what he has called a new American revolution. The original had a still-remembered fiscal catch phrase, "No taxation without representation"; Nixon framed an argument that might be summarized, less...
...method of protest. Explains one of the church's lay financial advisers in Rome: "The Vatican was getting blamed for too many things. If Immobiliare raised the rents, the tenants blamed the Vatican. If the water was cut off, it was the Pope's fault." To alter that image, the Vatican will now have "neither authority nor responsibility in the management of a company...
...look at society in spatial terms. No longer did the Soviet society have to be a mass that could only be carved away or molded into massive forms, but instead, society was more than pliant; the artist could construct a society; he could create the gestalt rather than merely alter it; the Constructivist was concerned with a new metaphysics in terms of tectonics...
...alter ego of Director François Truffaut, the character called Antoine Doinel made his first appearance eleven years ago in The 400 Blows as a lonely, desperate adolescent. Then came Love at Twenty and Stolen Kisses, in which the youth edged toward maturity. Now Antoine-who has been portrayed throughout by the remarkable Jean-Pierre Léaud-and Christine, played by Claude Jade, are ready for conjugal love. Truffaut begins the funny, futile years of their marriage (and ends the autobiographical series) with Bed and Board...
Skating to the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto. Petkevich had to alter his routine on the ice when the record missed and cut out some 12 seconds of music. Taking out two planned triple jumps, he made the transition so smoothly that the mistake did not keep one judge from awarding him a perfect 6.0 for composition and style. Five judges gave him 5.9 and the seventh...