Word: tamper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that this politically sensitive program will have to be curbed in 1983 and 1984 if the budget is to be balanced. Since one-third of the Senators and all members of the House face elections next year, they are not likely to be receptive to any Reagan plans to tamper with Social Security benefits...
...saved. Michael Rubner, an associate professor at James Madison College of Public Policy, argued in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article. "Once you breach tenure, you set a precedent. Breaching the tenure system will affect faculty coming and faculty staying. Researchers won't come. They leave places that tamper with the tenure system because their job security is not guaranteed...
...department might also be able to review federal money affecting buildings nominated for the list, Weslowski said. She added the main support for the new law comes from owners of commercial property who can suffer "tax disincentives" if they tamper with registered property...
...legal observers seem prepared to bet next Sunday's collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...
...vocally that the Currier House production fails. Director Ted Wiprud takes Eliot literally throughout, and doesn't tamper with casting or staging: he turns the Currier Fishbowl into a miniature basilica, lining the audience reverentially on either side, as though the plastic seats were pews. The director's straightforward approach falters only because many in the cast simply lack the vocal agility to carry Eliot's play safely from poetry to speech...