Word: amendment
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...tribal elders and respected Afghans for the loya jirga. That group would elect a transitional head of state to form a temporary government. After the drafting of a constitution, the return of refugees and the rebuilding of the country, another loya jirga would be called to amend the new constitution to allow for political parties and elections...
...University began the reconstruction of Widener Library in 1999 in an effort to amend flaws in its original design that endangered the preservation of its multi-faceted collection...
...economy eight or nine months ago, which of course was two months before he actually stepped in to start cutting rates Jan. 3. Under heavy fire from new Senate Banking chairman Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) over that lag, Greenspan copped to a slip of the calendar. "Let me amend my remarks from last week," he said, smiling - he'd meant to say December...
Better still, make it up. Recently the Pulitzer prizewinning historian Joseph Ellis, who has every reason to be content with a distinguished intellectual life, admitted he had fabricated a history of having been a paratrooper in Vietnam. Sadly, crazily, he gave himself a past to amend some self-perceived deficiency...
Thursday afternoon Kennedy charged into the L.B.J. Room off the Senate floor feeling pumped. Bush's first broadside hadn't sunk him. Kennedy's team had just defeated the Republicans' initial attempt to amend his bill. When Kennedy appeared inside the room, 30 lobbyists for patients'-rights groups and powerful health-care organizations like the American Medical Association broke into applause. But he quieted them. This President was good at snatching back victory, he knew. The grassroots activists had to keep the phones ringing in Senate offices. "We can't let up," Kennedy told the lobbyists...