Word: altered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even if there is not enough scientific proof to fundamentally alter the way airlines handle passengers, the challenges have spurred change: regulatory authorities are looking into the matter, and many airlines are upgrading their health advice to customers and crew, as well as assisting World Health Organization research begun in Geneva in March designed to settle the debate once and for all. Says a JAL executive: "The general line is that travelers should exercise their own common sense and not rely on airlines to play 'nanny.' But in this increasingly litigious world, that is a role we may have...
...Bush had to have gone to some trouble to acquire her phony Maryland photo ID, now framed as a trophy in the family room of a New Haven, Conn., security guard. Most IDs during Bannon's era simply had spaces for identifying characteristics, and they were easy enough to alter. They were also often issued under questionable, if not laughable, auspices--in Bannon's case, the Andover Stickball League, the name of which was printed in Gothic type to lend the card a nominal appearance of authority. As phony IDs went in those days, it probably would have been unremarkable...
Jeffords is an unprincipled political opportunist who took the easy way out. The self-sacrificing, heroic thing would have been to stick out the battle within his own camp and quietly use his talents and creativity to reform his colleagues and alter the direction of the party as a member of which he was elected. WALLACE L. MCKEEHAN Bellaire, Texas
...Recent HMO industry studies indicate Americans may be losing interest in suing their HMOs. If substantiated, would that trend alter your determination to maintain a relatively low ceiling on damage awards...
...sense, placements are just like commercials: they spotlight a product in an idealized, favorable setting. But they raise other questions. Virtual placements could alter past producers' creative work willy-nilly. As for physical placements, producers do disclose their sponsors--but there's disclosure and then there's disclosure. Viewers know commercials are scripted. But reality shows purport to show actual events --how a player felt, how a product performed. What if unscripted events don't follow the advertiser's script? Contestants on Fox's Murder drive Jeeps. If one of them stalls, does Fox cut the scene? "No," says executive...