Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok says Harvard may take the residents' case to court, if the city council should approve the down-zoning petition submitted to them in September. Harvard officials staunchly defend Harvard's right to build in Cambridge. It is really too late, they imply, for Cambridge to alter its collegiate, intellectual atmosphere. Muffin houses will continue to open and close in Harvard Square probably forever, but whether Cambridge will be able to accept its fate and work out an arrangement with the universities whereby they too can have some say in what happens to their city, is still unclear
...that "sources indicate it happened fairly often." Unfortunately, the fact that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office does not prove much, for without access to the time sheets it is almost impossible to know whether any of the absences were authorized. And if, as Kindleberger implies, Vellucci could alter the time sheets after the fact, to "cover his ass," it may never be possible to answer the question...
...violence,' and the present troubles may even end, but the question of national affiliation will continue to plague the province. Unification or union, the only final solutions, are completely unacceptable solutions. Only an astounding shift in the thinking in one of the two groups will alter the situation--but this would take generations of enlightened and conciliatory politics which does not seem likely...
Dosadi accepts a Darwinian order where the male Gowach weeds out his weakest offspring at birth. The planet itself allows only the strongest to survive and then hones their capabilities to the keenest point, preparing them to infiltrate and alter the universe that spawned their world. If publishers were to apply the same rigors to Herbert's books, Dosadi would be the first of his progeny sacrificed. It is a competent work of fantasy but Dosadi is not what the faithful fan expects of Frank Herbert...
...score stood at 0-0 through most of the competition, but a long touchdown pass from Marc M. "Bubba" Sadowsky to Jonathan H. "Crazylegs" Alter sent the Crimson surging into the lead. The Law Review defensive line, porous with loopholes, collapsed under the Crimson pressure after that point...