Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words set down by the framers mapped out first principles of government in spare but sweeping lines. The amendments added since the Bill of Rights have actually done little to alter the document's intrinsic meaning, though they took such dramatic steps as abolishing slavery, expanding the right to vote and permitting a federal income tax. A few of the additions even seem gratuitous, like graffiti on a public monument -- Prohibition and the amendment to be rid of it -- and the urge rises to go at them with a sponge...
...most observers, however, the Supreme Court ruling did seem to alter dramatically the delicate balance that goes into the making of many land-use decisions. In particular, citizens trying to limit development in their localities may find themselves at a disadvantage. Says Lee Ruck, counsel to the National Association of Counties: "An outcry of community concern is now less likely to sway a member of a board of supervisors or a city-planning committee faced with a high-priced lawyer in a three-piece suit who is threatening money damages." In the view of the real estate industry, the court...
Hall, who was secretary to North for four years, spoke of unquestioning loyalty to him and said she didn't object or ask for an explanation when he ordered her to alter memos...
...power brokers and celebrity watchers, opened its famed iron gates after a four-month face-lift, a reported $8 million exercise in cosmetic surgery that included the premises, the food and the menu as well. The big question: Has "21" changed? Has the new owner-management team dared to alter the setting or, even worse, change the food? Do they still make the famous hamburger? And, in effect, will we still be able to love it and hate...
...beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis. The new material could alter the way scientists interpret human evolution...