Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statistical average, each American adult this season will send, and receive, at least 15 cards. That means the bells of stationery store cash registers will ring up U.S. sales of $300 million this Christmas−glad tidings to about 200 card companies. Like the automakers, the card publishers alter their models annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps...
...other hand, you possess an unfashionable commitment to education; if you feel that art can both refine man's sensibilities and alter the world he lives in, then you may find Mr. Sarris's autcurist flag a more than slightly distasteful emblem of the liberal bourgeois' 50's and 60's frivolity...
...raids are another in a series of gameboard moves to "show the Communists that the United States means business"; no amount of external pressure or internal political divisions can alter our determination to place the South Vietnamese countryside solidly in Thieu's hands whether, in fact, it is inhabited...
...Buffalo researchers speculated that the difficulty may have been caused partly by a natural chemical hostility between the different strains. Despite this obstacle, scientists may someday produce amoebae with totally new characteristics. It may be possible, for example, to remove one component of an amoeba, alter it with drugs or radiation, and then insert it into the cell again. The artificially induced changes might then be passed on to the amoeba's offspring. Indeed, Danielli, who holds three doctorates (chemistry, physiology and biochemistry), seems certain that the work "opens up a new era of artificial life synthesis...
...Papanek says that the host government in Indonesia is not unduly influenced by its advisors, and that the government does not act in the best interests of its people. Yet the DAS claims it "played a major role in an attempt to alter the direction the economy was going." And the new direction clearly is not in the interests of the Indonesian people. As Newsweek reports, "So far, foreign investment has focused primarily on the extraction of raw materials-such as oil, timber, and aluminum-and will do little to help the general economy. In fact, few of these investments...