Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer a sober assessment of the state of the nation, as well as realistic options for the future. We have not been willing to dedicate ourselves to change, yet change is overpowering us. Does anyone think we can't alter the future? We do so every day, through our advocacy or our complacency. Accepting reality doesn't have to mean shelving cherished values and institutions, but it does mean making them work...
...week alter establishing a Heptagonal record in the 1500 meter run and two weeks after setting an American record performance in the 100 meters in the Big Three meet. Adam Dixon did it again. Yesterday, Dixon broke his own school record in the 1500 meters with a 3:43.89 victory at the IC4A Championships in Princeton's Jadwin...
Putnam added that the present policy is now "under review," but that the Corporation would not alter it before consulting with ACSR, which is independently reviewing Harvard's investment policy...
...enables a businessman, for example, to manipulate labyrinthine equations to calculate financial trends for his company. If he changes one figure, the machine can tell quickly how that affects the other numbers. A firm that gives its workers a 10% pay hike could estimate how that action would alter its costs, sales, profits, or dividends...
...Definitive," remarks Commentary Editor Robert Alter, "except for the omission of a computerized convector-current olfactory unit to waft about in seven pre-sequenced patterns the odor of rotten bread, potato peels and scorched flesh...