Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lifting of U.S. sanctions on trade with Cuba [Sept. 1] by U.S. subsidiaries does not alter our embargo on direct trade with Cuba...
...speak out was Udall. Said he: "I do really regret that of all the advanced industrial societies, we seem to be the one that is most inclined toward this sort of thing, but this will not change my plans in the slightest." Nor, friends were saying, would the incident alter the activities of the two men who have the most reason to fear the Squeaky Frommes of the world. When, as expected, Alabama's George Wallace announces for the presidency, he will still campaign as vigorously as possible, fighting the paralysis caused by the bullets fired by Arthur Bremer...
...Last week Kissinger had gone through at least eight drafts of a speech that will underscore the problems of the developing world and, in an aide's words, "how we can move from rhetoric to problem solving." Although extended negotiations in the Middle East have forced Kissinger to alter his plans for attending the session, his speech will be delivered by recently appointed U.N. Ambassador David Moynihan. Like Kissinger, Moynihan has long favored a comparatively hard-line approach to the Third World, especially toward the latter's habit of blaming the industrial world for many of its afflictions...
...reported last week that the July rate dropped further, to 8.4%, and this time it said that the figure was as exact as statistical techniques can make it. Surprised Administration economists still think the rate might go up again in August; but even if it does, that will not alter the conclusion, now widely held among economists, that the nation's worst recession since the 1930s is definitely over...
Like the weather, the sorry state of Main Street in Cheney, Kans. (pop. 1,200) was something everybody complained about but nobody did much to alter. The trouble began when the town's mechanical street sweeper broke down and there was no money in the budget for repairs. Refuse and dirt started to pile high, trucks carrying groaning loads of wheat to the elevators added to the mess, and so much sand from a water main project drifted around Main Street that Cheney began to resemble a grain belt Sahara...