Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third initiative, Reagan directed Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III to consider calling a world monetary conference to discuss whether to alter the free-market system of setting currency values...
...N.P.A. has a valuable ally in its political alter ego: the illegal, 30,000-member Communist Party of the Philippines. The C.P.-N.P.A. combination is one of the 22 organizations in the National Democratic Front, an outlawed coalition of community, labor, church and leftist groups that boasts a total membership of 1 million and has an executive committee dominated by Communists. In addition, many moderate opponents of Marcos have accused Bayan, a federation of leftist groups that claims 1.5 million members, of also being Communist infiltrated...
...team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered cosmic bubbles in space which may alter scientists' views of how the universe was formed...
Cuts of that magnitude will drastically alter the role of Government in a way that goes well beyond what Americans have come to expect. A foretaste came last week when Budget Director James Miller produced a hit list of programs to be slashed next year. On it were items that the Administration has long thought cuttable. Among them: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, rural housing loans and the Economic Development Administration. Estimated savings: far less than what might be necessary for fiscal 1987 alone...
...frenzy was the latest demonstration of what even Marcos' foes concede is his tactical brilliance. For 20 years, the President has ruled the 7,000-island archipelago by keeping opposition forces in jail, in disarray and in constant uncertainty about his next move. He has also not hesitated to alter the country's democratic practices to suit his purposes. He evaded the constitution's limit of two four-year terms for the presidency by declaring martial law midway through his second term. Even when Marcos lifted martial law in 1981, he did not give up his authority to rule...