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...reason that conservatives, of all Americans, should recoil from the amendment is that it would irreparably alter the checks and balances in the Constitution. It would require Congress to cede enormous power to the courts and/or the President...
...portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life a legend, a starting point of future departures...
Despite early successes in research and faculty grants, however, insufficient donations for buying space in the new building may alter plans for the program. Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, says that because total expansion plans have been scaled down, the research centers will probably receive less space then they had originally anticipated...
...East-West Trade Policy Committee, Shultz has been an advocate of maintaining steady commercial relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In a 1979 article attacking President Carter's restrictions on technology transfers to the Soviet Union, Shultz wrote, "We cannot use trade as a tool designed to alter the domestic politics of other countries." The incoming Secretary also met Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev twice in 1973, to discuss ways to increase trade between the two nations...
...thousands of people would be displaced from their homes. Millions of acres of northern land would be flooded, including great tracts of game forest. Towns and villages would disappear, some of them with onion-domed churches dating back to the Middle Ages. No less disturbing, the diversion could drastically alter climate not only in the Soviet Union but throughout the Northern Hemisphere, even as far off as the U.S. and Canada...