Word: amendment
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...different conclusion. I figured that with curators who could describe the Pacific war thus: "For most Americans ... it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism," there was no point in negotiating. You don't amend such tendentious anti-Americanism. You kill it. You scrap the 600-page commentary and follow the advice of General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb: display the restored Enola Gay in reverent silence, with only a few lines explaining what it did and when...
Several councillors had wanted to amend the ordinance to empower Cambridge police to arrest offenders, to set a 30-day sentence for anyone found guilty of sale or possession of a machete and to ban in addition the possession of the knives...
...believe that as a result of this case,Congress will amend the copyright statute, but Iam not sure Congress will decide to criminalizeprecisely what David LaMacchia did," Silverglatesaid...
...rent control debate divided the Senate along partisan lines, with Republican leaders heading a vocal effort to amend, delay and finally reject the petitions...
Tisei attempted to amend Boston's petition to deny the city any additional funding for the continuation of its rent control laws...