Word: altered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...polar air flows toward the equator. The planet's eastward rotation skews the movement of air and causes the prevailing westerly winds that blow from North America toward Europe, and roar across the southern oceans. Topographical features, such as land masses and mountains, and uneven heating patterns further alter the air flow. The result is the assortment of high-and low-pressure regions and the winds that give the earth its weather...
...long-term effects of weather modification might be even more disastrous. Meteorologists point out that tropical storms serve as an environmental safety valve, enabling the planet to distribute the enormous heat that would otherwise build up around the equator. Preventing these storms, they warn, could drastically alter the earth's atmosphere and climate, possibly for the worse. Others fear that altering weather patterns over one region of the globe could result in the disruption of rainfall and damage or even destroy vital crops elsewhere...
...life but also of the organized extra-curricular life--and by a simple effort of transference, of the larger society--a characteristic that the sisters institutionally, in their choices of what to support, what not to support, and how to do it, have done more to perpetuate than to alter." In effect, these women were trained to be the wives of the elite, highly educated volunteers for good causes, not, by any stretch of the imagination, fervent suffragettes or feminists...
...things that motivated us [to choose Cox] was the suggestion by the Maine attorney general that Congress legislate the Indian claims out of existence or alter the rules under which the case would be tried, so we felt Professor Cox would be the best person to avert that kind of attack on the claim," Tureen said...
...Smith had rejected a British proposal for achieving black majority rule within 14 months. That plan envisioned a 32-man interim government of blacks and whites, with a British "commissioner" at its head (TIME, Jan. 17). Since the commissioner would have a decisive vote and broad discretionary powers to alter the racial makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal of a balanced black-white council of state operating over a two-year period. The two schemes, Smith told a radio-TV audience last week, were "as different...