Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not matter what course the Sandinistas are taking. The U.S. has no business interfering and trying to alter the direction of their revolution...
...already shaky standing with the White House. Presidential aides recently forced him to decline an invitation to appear on Meet the Press on the ground that it would highlight internal policy differences. A staff member on his own council leaked a story that Feldstein had been forced to alter two speeches and "throw away" a third one because of White House censorship. Top Administration officials have been hinting that Feldstein, who plans to return to his teaching post at Harvard next September, should quit sooner...
There is also the matter of Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's fictional alter id and hero of a comic trilogy that has forever flattened the myth of the glamorous writing life. Zuckerman, of course, is not Roth but rather the fullest and most personal expression of a theme that has come to dominate his work: the mayhem unleashed by those who would escape their pasts. This may be what David Kepesh in Roth's The Professor of Desire had in mind when he spoke stiltedly of "the destructive power-of those who see a way out of the shell...
...Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government." In this framework. I have always believed that rallies are crucial. They provide an important forum for freedom, of expression and an opportunity to educate people. In my opinion, tonight's rally facilitated neither...
...some low-lying areas in coastal cities such as Charleston, S.C., and Galveston, Texas); and drastically changing rainfall patterns, especially in the breadbasket areas of the Midwest, where reduced precipitation could jeopardize crops. Nothing, not even a sharp cutback in the use of fossil fuels, the EPA added, could alter this climatic course...