Word: tamper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currency black markets around the world. The reason is that the market works too well. Furthermore, federal control over the stock market, designed mainly to keep it honest and informative, and aimed at maximizing the competitiveness of the market and the information of the customer, makes it hard to tamper...
...done by this year's group. Delegates to the congregation, chiefly older and more conservative members of the Society, have been pointedly prudent regarding change. Winding up business last week, the congregation referred certain big questions regarding the structure of the Society, such as whether or not to tamper with the fourth vow, to committee for further study. As for the daily hour of prayer, the delegates' report emphasized its importance in Jesuit tradition, but gave local provincials some leeway for making exceptions. Taken together with his recent standpat position on birth control, the Pope's rebuke...
...millions of ordinary Christians, there is no real reason to worry or debate the Trinity, the Resurrection or any other doctrine. Billy Graham does not want to tamper with what the Bible says or find new verbal "packages" for what the creedal formulas profess. "In my evangelistic crusades," he says, "I have found that thousands upon thousands of people on every continent will eagerly listen to the same Gospel that Paul preached in the 1st century...
...recently as last February, Secretary of the Treasury Fowler still felt the same way. He urged the Senate Finance Committee not to tamper with the capital investment tax credit. "We feel," he said, "the investment credit is a sound, long-range measure in that its basic purpose was to produce an incentive to increase productive capacity. An increase of productive capacity, and an increase in supply, is one of the best answers to increased demand or inflationary tendencies...
...Committee had all its weapons readied at Emerson Hall last night: movies and slides of the wonders of Nature and the blunders of men who tamper with it, a panel discussion (which was eventually scrapped), and petitions and night letter forms for persuading legislators to vote against...