Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Brandt's political prestige in West Germany rests heavily on the success of his Ostpolitik, his desire for quick results is understandable. The Western Allies, however, have refused to alter their negotiating tactics. They want an agreement with the Soviets on specific points, not a vague statement of principle that the Russians could later wriggle out of. The main points...
...October 1, 1970, issue of the Harvard CRIMSON carried on its front page an article by Mr. David Landau headlined "Affiliated Hospitals Center Changes Site in Roxbury." The second paragraph of that article stated "The AHC . . . decided last July to alter its construction plans in such a way that it will probably take the land under all 182 housing units-instead of 60, as had been anticipated...
...truth emerging here is not that the masses will necessarily succeed in overwhelming wealthy men and nations, but that those men and nations in order to continue their picnic [ sic ] will necessarily subjugate completely or else totally destroy the unmanageable majority of those masses; literally, they will alter the world's reality which is wont, by destroying those who want even a small portion of what the wealthy have...
...words of one of its leading members, Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, the House of Representatives is "ineffective . . . negative ... Its procedures, time-consuming and unwieldy, mask anonymous centers of irresponsible power. Its legislation is often a travesty of what the national welfare requires." Last week, facing an opportunity to alter that image, the House left it largely intact...
...Johnson's perception of a sad pedagogical truth. Any good school is a delicately balanced work of civilization as febrile and vulnerable as a colony of hummingbirds. The private vice of a matron, the loss of a particularly gifted student, the departure of even one fond teacher can alter it decisively-for the worse...