Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approved President Kennedy's plans to speed up operations of the agenda-clogged Federal Trade Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board by allowing the chairmen to delegate many chores to staff assistants. Both plans had been previously cleared by the House. Earlier, the House killed a similar plan to alter the Federal Communications Commission, and the Senate voted down revision of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...which means that President Kennedy's first appointment to the court will be a crucial one. The man chosen may decisively alter the balance...
...Radcliffe House system lives up to Mrs. Bunting's expectations, clearly it will bring improvements other than adequate space and lighting and a reasonable amount of privacy. Casual friendships between students and Faculty members--or those families Mrs. Bunting hopes to attract--could gently alter the intellectual atmosphere. 'Cliffies might stop feeling and all too often behaving as if they were losing in a competition with Harvard for Faculty attention. The desperate grind might desert her study corner for the intellectual give-and-take in a Harvard-style dining room. The party girl might be stimulated to individual research through...
...veteran of 38 years of African business experience, still makes the long-range financial decisions and has the final word on United Africa's grand strategy. His own explanation of United Africa's success: "When there's a change of wind, it simply means you alter your sails. If you do it right, you may even sail faster...
...China will permanently alter the Russian future, in Kennan's view: "People who have only enemies don't know what complications are; for that, you have to have friends; and these the Soviet government, thank God, now has." Kennan hopefully thinks that, as a modern reincarnation of the murderous Ivan the Terrible, Stalin may have immunized the Soviet state against Stalinism. He believes that Khrushchev is the effect, and not the cause, of "the thaw...