Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMHERST Citing racial discrimination as the reason for leaving, a top administrator at the University of Massachusetts will be talking a one year professional leave of absence alter employment elsewhere...
...want, to say what they want, to meet with whom they want, that is considered invaluable to the norms of Soviet life. It's the job of the KGB to prevent this sort of thing from happening. There's no reason why a professional KGB man ... would want to alter his attitudes...
...developed and promoted use of the enzyme to treat herniated discs. Smith had been fascinated with a 1956 paper by Dr. Lewis Thomas, author of Lives of a Cell and now Chancellor of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Thomas had been trying to see if various enzymes could alter concentrations of proteins in the blood. One evening, he gave adolescent rabbits intravenous injections of papain. Next morning, he found that the rabbits' normally erect ears had flopped; the papaya enzyme had dissolved the gelatinous protein of their cartilage...
...obtaining any more. In a black-market-like situation. Nowak unexpectedly begins shoplifting to keep his workers pacified and fed. Then by using the incentive of extra food to drive them harder, he assumes an increasingly authoritarian role. Especially telling is the way in which Nowak channels and fundamentally alters the worker's reality, much like a totalitarian regime. For example, on their way to a hardware store, he rips down all the Solidarity posters before his companions can see them. He even goes so far as to alter the time on his watch to fool the workers into...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt finally extended recognition in 1933, he justified the decision partly on the ground that a dozen years of nonrecognition had failed to alter either the internal or the foreign policies of the Soviet Union. Hostility having failed, the U.S. was ready to try a dose of friendship. The new American embassy was to be modeled on Monticello. "I like the idea of planting Thomas Jefferson in Moscow," said F.D.R. The first U.S. Ambassador, William Bullitt, told the President, "Our representatives in the Soviet Union today can have a really immense influence...