Word: amendable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbia Daily Spectator announced yesterday it will refuse an IRS demand that it revise its charter to forbid endorsement of political candidates. The IRS threatened last week to take away the paper's tax-exempt status if it did not amend its charter by the weekend...
Sherwood L. Washburn, the University of California anthropologist, dismissed him as a "popularizer of data he does not understand." Dr. Stuart Altmann of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta suggested that the chief value of his second book was to amend the errors of the first. After reading the same text, Edmund Leach, the British anthropologist, announced that it was "best left alone altogether." Despite such forthright professional judgments of his writings, Robert Ardrey, 61, the author of two anthropological bestsellers, African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), has now produced another work in the same field...
...major rationale for more logging in national forests is that the bulk of the Government's high-yield timber areas are located in sections of Alaska, California, the Northwest and parts of the South "not uniquely valuable for other uses." The commission would also amend the General Mining Law of 1872 galled "scandalous" by some conservationists), which allows prospectors to mine whatever minerals they find on public lands, but the change would merely shift claim filing from local to federal officials. No tough conservation controls are contemplated...
Maddox called the session to amend state government financing procedures. In the long run, the proposed change should save the state money, but the Constitution and the Journal questioned the urgency and warned that the special session itself could be costly. The papers even suggested that Candidate Maddox might just be grandstanding...
...demonstrators will gather at Park Street Station in Boston for a march to Government Center. Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D. Mass.) and other speakers will address the marchers at a rally in the J. F. K. Plaza of Government Center. Harrington will receive a petition to amend the U. S. Constitution by adding an Environmental Bill of Rights. The Harvard Policy Ecology Coalition plans to present a list of "survival demands"-covering environmental and social problems-to representatives of the Governor and Mayor...