Word: alteration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Experience has brought what may be a better judgment: it is simply not in the perceived self-interest of those in vested seats of power to think and act in terms that will alter their power relationships with those who do not have power... the whole weight of their perceived self-interest militates against basically creative thrusts of mind and will, however much the heart may reach out for those who are less fortunate in that they have no power...
Last week the Massachusetts House surprised practically everyone by passing a bill, sponsored by Representative Michael S. Dukakis (D-Brookline), which would completely alter Massachusetts' present car insurance system...
...that, three liberal clerics from The Netherlands were called to a secret meeting in northern Italy with Vatican theologians. At the meeting, the Dutch announced that some of the more controversial passages would be rewritten. But they made it clear that they intended to alter phrasing, not ideas. Later Cardinal Alfrink repeated essentially the same thing during a personal audience with Pope Paul...
...extent to which vested interests and traditional forces exert control over the nation's lawmakers. In some minor area, however, reforms are making progress. The President's proposal to change the method of taxing the elderly has been submitted as part of the Social Security amendments. It does not alter the revenue cost of the program, but merely redirects the relief in a uniform manner towards those who need it most--the poorest, who get the highest tax exemption, while the richest get the low exemption. It is this type measure, by which revenue changes but the balance remains...
...little Nabokov." There may never be one, for it would be hard to match him even in junior size. Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been able to alter the language of their craft. Above all, he is a unique artificer in the arid world of contemporary fiction...