Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago as 1925, Sears Executive Robert Wood saw that the automobile would alter our way of life. He began locating Sears stores away from city centers and provided large parking lots. This led to a revolution in retailing and influenced the economic decline of central cities...
Under the constitution painstakingly negotiated with Britain before independence, Mugabe cannot alter the basic structure of the country until 1987-88. His government remains partly dependent on British financial assistance, notably to complete an ambitious land-reform program that involves resettling by next year some 162,000 homeless families on government-purchased land. But Mugabe has said that he plans to call a general election early next year, and that he would interpret a big victory as a mandate for a one-party state. Even if he can persuade Nkomo's party to merge with his own, thereby...
...policy is not strictly neutralist, since it calls for a buildup of conventional defensive arms. If adopted by a government in Westminster, it would force NATO to consider a new defense strategy and clearly alter Britain's relationship with the U.S. An unanswered question is how it would affect Labor's chances of regaining power. Polls indicate that since last year's election, more Britons favor a nuclear freeze and fewer support cooperation with the U.S. in nuclear policy. The next elections, however, are probably still more than four years away...
Skvorecky's alter ego is Danny Smiricky, 48, a Czech émigré professor at a college very like Skvorecky's academic home for some 15 years, the University of Toronto. Danny teaches dark Old World lessons from Poe, Hawthorne and Stephen Crane to nice Canadian boys and girls whose idea of horror is derived from Stephen King movies. As for The Red Badge of Courage, Danny's students read it not as a commentary on war but as one more case study of a young man's identity crisis...
...classic kind of legal horror story that leads critics to rail against the consequences of the exclusionary rule: a Boston detective, investigating a woman's brutal murder, had good reason to suspect her boyfriend, Osborne Sheppard. Unable to find the proper warrant form, the officer unsuccessfully tried to alter a form normally used in drug cases. A judge okayed the warrant, and Sheppard was convicted. But because of this technical imperfection, Massachusetts highest court declared the search illegal and threw out the incriminating evidence, including bloody clothing, that had been found in the suspect's house...