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...masters of the 13 hours decided last night not to alter the University's restrictive three-week-old liquor policy...
Pipes said that he doubted yesterday's briefing would significantly alter the President's views on Soviet affairs, stressing that this was only one of many sessions the President would attend in preparation for the summit...
Although incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci has held the swing-vote for the past few years, observers say the shift of a single seat could significantly alter city policies, particularly regarding the much-debated issue of rent control...
...some observers, who fear the application of recombinant DNA to human beings. Some extreme critics even evoke visions of Hitlerian attempts to engineer a new master race. Most scientists dismiss these fears, pointing out that the new therapy will be used only on patients' body cells; it will not alter their sex cells, and hence cannot affect future generations. "It's not a way of altering the genetic pool," says A. Dusty Miller of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "It's just a novel and clever way of administering a drug." Of course, it is just...
...even a single thoughtful and deeply honest publication among black intellectuals--there is hardly a forum of any sort in this vein--willing to engage in those necessary acts of painful self-criticism without which neither intellectual clarity about the black social condition nor concrete understanding of how to alter it will be attained...