Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing what we like, can we? He gets up at 6:45 a.m., reads the front page and the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times, and is at work playing video games by 9 a.m. He shares an open, interconnected warren of offices with his close associates and alter egos Kennedy and Marshall. She is bright, quick and Irish, he relaxed and softspoken. The director trusts them totally. Between the two of them, they gently but firmly supply organization to the organization. That is not easy in an office atmosphere resembling, as Spielberg says proudly, the raunchy cantina...
...fact a Congressman's main residence, the rule "provides special treatment for members of Congress that no other taxpayer in America can get." The IRS, which has received more than 20,000 letters protesting the new deduction, held hearings on the issue last week. The IRS can alter the benefit if agency lawyers decide it is unfair. But just as in the case of weapons decisions, Congress has ultimate jurisdiction over the tax laws, and strange things have been known to happen in the quiet of a committee room...
Herman suggests changing the way incest is perceived as the first step towards making many needed reforms. Incest laws should alter the rules of procedure, she says, since eyewitness are obviously rare. Abused children usually remain under their father's roof (and power) while the father is being tried. Mothers and daughters, estranged in incestuous families, must be re-united. Therapists must recognize the cultural taboos surrounding incest and develop new methods of treating victims...
First of all, if Mr. Pattullo is writing as a layman, why does he find it necessary or even appropriate to list his title? If it is because he sees the Independent as a student newspaper he could simply put "employee" alter his name. It seems to me that, despite his disclaimer, this implies a connection to his position, one which is unfortunately emphasized by the fact it is in Behavioral Sciences and Psychology in general had done so much damage to gays and lesbians, reinforcing the myths that homosexuals are abnormal, sick, dangerous and deserving of second-class treatment...
Haitians, fleeing from the nightmarish conditions in their own country, have headed for the United States in droves. Some 44,000 refugees were officially known to have arrived between 1972 (the year alter Duvalier took office) and 1981. The true number is almost certainly much higher. It was only in 1980, when 125,000 Cubans set out for the United States in the "Freedom Flotilla," that Haitians began to be refused entry to America in large numbers. Observers attribute the change in policy to an American fear triggered by the sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians...