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Word: alterations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind with the "glaze on a katydid-wing," to emphasize its perpetual variety and mutability. "It's not a Herod's oath that cannot change," she concluded, invoking a most terrible example in the figure of Herod, who would not prof it from experience, who would not alter his position even when heaven screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Consistency as a Minor Virtue | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...officers and firemen in Boston who have filed a reverse-discrimination case scheduled to come before the Supreme Court this spring. When layoffs caused by Proposition 2 1/2 threatened to undo the effects of a recently approved and implemented affirmative action plan, a Circuit Court ordered the departments to alter their seniority plans to preserve in part the effects of preferential hiring. That decision resulted in the firing of some whites who would have retained their jobs under the established seniority plan, and led police and firefighter unions, with the state of Massachusetts, to appeal to the Supreme Court...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Tipping The Scales | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

Until Congress awakens to the deadly ramifications of U.S. tobacco trade, the problem will remain intractable. But powerlessness should not excuse Harvard from adopting a policy of divestiture of its Philip Morris stock. Even if divestiture dots nothing to force Philip Morris to alter its foreign trade practices, the moral justification for financially supporting tobacco production and export is even thinner than for investing in South Africa or nuclear weapons production, the other hotly debated divestiture issues. Continuing to ignore--or worse, endorse--the injustice our tobacco industry imposes crisis. Instead, our silence will not add to our responsibility...

Author: By Allen S. Winer, | Title: Clearing Away the Smoke | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

BLUE EYES set confidently on rugged face, this has always been the primary attraction of past Paul Newman movies. Acting seemed an alter thought in those largely action based derring do adventures But The Verdict. Newman's latest, is more than just an excuse for long-lingering closeups. A not-quite before role in the slow paced drama provides Newman with the sort of acting challenge seldom faced before. And the old pro-delivers...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Newman's Case | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

Before the end of this century, the human apply cautions of genetic engineering techniques will present us with some of the most difficult questions that have ever confronted mankind. It we can alter our own genetic blueprints, the potential for affecting the future of the human race, as we know it, becomes limitless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tackling 'Technology Transfer' | 1/5/1983 | See Source »

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