Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan was to conduct a comprehensive program of weather warfare to alter world climate patterns. They were going to deprive the underdeveloped world of climates suitable for agriculture. Starve them out. Make them grateful to trade their raw materials with the industrialized nations. Make the third world willing to give anything for a little grain...
...skeptical Congress to go along with a foreign policy that many critics believe is too adventurous. Conservatives are already planning to ambush him on China when he asks for legislation to establish a budget for an embassy in Peking. They also will challenge his request for measures to alter the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and Taiwan. In addition, Carter will reopen in part the Panama Canal debate when he requests legislation to carry out the terms of the treaties signed last year to turn control of the canal over to Panama by the year 2000. On both...
...Mencken's editorial, as valid today as it was 40 years ago: "As English spreads over the world, will it be able to maintain its present form? Probably not. But why should it? ... Stability in language is synonymous with rigormortis." In 1978, American prose continued to alter, irritate and entertain. To the purist, those characteristics may be evidence of deterioration. Certainly our language has been besieged by vulgarities. But it has also been enriched by vigorous phrases and terms. To those who speak and write with care, those words are the unmistakable beats of life...
...pros laud McEnroe's ability to disguise his shots and alter his style. Predicts Borg...
...Peoples Temple branches were two of the five largest congregations in the church and for a decade he had stirred more press controversy than any other clergyman in the denomination. An investigation by the Christian Church in California went nowhere. Officials are now trying to decide whether to alter cherished laissez-faire traditions and establish a procedure for throwing out unfit ministers or congregations...