Word: alters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radius. Whatever the technological facts, China's spectacular last week did little to alter the balance of raw thermonuclear power in the world. To be sure, a slight improvement...
...Republican of long standing, the Captain insisted on running his own editorial-page column supporting Richard Nixon for President on the same day that his wife came out editorially for Jack Kennedy. But once he became editor, Guggenheim did not noticeably alter the paper's rather liberal Democratic outlook. He closely supervises the editorial page and writes many editorials himself-and he does not hesitate to criticize a Republican one day, a Democrat the next. Last week Newsday came out for Republican Nelson Rockefeller for New York Governor; a few weeks back, it endorsed Democrat Arthur Levitt for Comptroller...
Only Lyndon Johnson can change the direction of U.S. policy. He can alter it from one that stresses military means to one that emphasizes diplomacy -- from one that relies on destruction to one that does not demand the "defeat" of the Viet Cong before negotiations. This policy, undertaken systematically, balances both foreign and domestic considerations; it can be made persuasive to both Americans and North Vietnamese...
Another alternative more likely at this point, would be to change the name of Arch Sci to Environmental Studies, while keeping the Visual Studies program technically discrete. The two fields would then gradually alter their curricula to prepare for a later merger...
Switch, Switch. A concertmaster's influence is so strong, in fact, that by his example he can alter the entire sound of an orchestra. The suavity and elegance of Nadien's playing, for example, have already given his string section a correspondingly new tone. Beyond that, the concertmaster helps decide promotions, auditions, prospective new players, and acts as a father confessor as well as a liaison between the men and the maestro. Barbirolli says that the Italian appellation for concertmaster, violino di spalla, is more apropos: "His is the shoulder that the conductor leans...