Word: tampered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German newspaper called "a dangerous and discouraging precedent." Even many Canadians were unhappy with their Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, over his government's ham-fisted attempt to tamper with the world's premier sports event...
Another difficulty: the U.S. insists that its tariff-cutting formula be applied to agriculture as well as factory products so that American farmers can sell more food in the EEC. The Europeans consider their protectionist Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) a cornerstone of European unity and are reluctant to tamper with it. Even so, some sort of basic agreement on a tariff-cutting formula should be possible by this fall...
...obvious question in these cases, where the courts are compelling an agency to release information which may be damaging to that agency, is whether the FBI could have tampered with the files. Weinstein thinks not. "Obviously we'll never know with absolute certainty but there is a good cross checking system." By this Weinstein means that many copies of these files have already been made and are kept in various governmental agencies. Thus, should the FBI tamper with the files in violation of court orders, it might well create more difficulties for itself than if it released information, some...
...council, is the administrative head of the city and legally holds most of the municipal power. Cambridge's charter makes it clear that only the city manager and his staff directly handle municipal affairs and can order civil servants to do specific jobs. City councilors who try to tamper with this process risk a $500 fine and a six-month prison sentence...
...solve balance of payments problems, it will suggest giving International Monetary Fund loans to countries that suffer trade shortfalls. In the face of opposition from key Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary William Simon, Moynihan is expected to announce that the U.S., for the first time, may be willing to tamper with traditional free-market mechanisms by entering into commodity pricing agreements with producer nations...