Word: amends
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...even in our own neighborhood. But subsequent calls by City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and others to close the Pit, though well-meaning, are misguided. The Pit and those who frequent it do not pose any significant danger to the surrounding community, and the City Council was right to amend Sullivan’s original proposal and to focus on protecting Pit regulars rather than protecting Cambridge from them...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) releases its report in a month’s time, the living wage campaign has already transformed its public presence from a single-issue lobbying group into a movement focused on perennial issues and engaged in a near-permanent effort to amend the University’s labor policies...
Dixon proposes that the City Council have greater control over education than the current state Proposition 2 1/2 requires. Instead of having the City Council simply approve or reject the School Committee’s budget, Dixon says he wants the council to be able to amend the school budget...
...would be open to modifying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, it was an indication of how far the world has come since the end of the Cold War. While we still have concerns about the feasibility of a missile defense system, an agreement with Russia to amend the treaty would eliminate the greatest diplomatic and political obstacle to the limited testing of a missile defense...
...hope that the U.S. and Russia can cooperate to find a way to amend the ABM treaty and to quickly reduce our nuclear stockpiles. The alternative, that America unilaterally withdraw from the treaty, would render meaningless Bush’s claim that the U.S. and Russia should no longer view each other as adversaries. But right now, the most pressing threat to America is international terrorism, and national missile defense must not regain its traditional place as the sole object of Bush’s foreign policy...