Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bogotá, the list of kidnapings has reached the point where the army advises wealthy Colombians to "alter your daily routine, never discuss travel plans among strangers, don't go out alone." Nervous citizens can buy guns from the army to protect themselves; many men keep submachine guns at their side when they drive to work in the morning. In some cases the Communists have used kidnaping threats in an attempt to run both foreign and Colombian industrialists out of the country. Most of the businessmen have sent their families abroad and stayed on - with body guards beside them...
...program can alter, or even hide the fact that undergraduate instruction is often mediocre and occasionally frightfully poor. For such a condition to exist in the midst of the most brilliant Faculty and, more significantly, the wealthiest private University in the country is ironic and slightly outrageous. The problem is not unique to Harvard, of course. The University of Southern California recently sponsored a symposium of all of its senior faculty members in an attempt to persuade teachers to teach better and more often. Such discussion is conspicuously lacking in CRIMSON reports of Faculty discussions...
...hard for those old-line liberals who watched what the Russians did in East Europe to alter their conception of how Communism operates, or to learn to distinguish between Communisms and make decisions based on those distinctions. Yet the time has come when that learning process must take place...
Sovereign Prerogative. Frankfurter saw the Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges, free of popular veto, might easily impose their own notions of "justice." He warned repeatedly that diffusion of power is the basic premise of U.S. Government. In public policy, he said (borrowing a phrase from his hero Justice Holmes), "the sovereign prerogative of choice" should always rest with elected compromisers...
...national silver hoard declined by 23% last year, and a conspicuous symptom that the trouble is continuing is the nagging shortage of U.S. coins. Last week the U.S. Treasury told a congressional subcommittee, which is brooding over ways to ease the shortage, that the Government may well have to alter the 90% silver content of dimes, quarters and halves. This has led powerful business groups into the greatest debate over silver since William Jennings Bryan cried out for the silver interests in his 1896 "Cross of Gold" peroration...