Word: tamperers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mass-market audio books are boiled down to a length of three to six hours. Even at a relatively brisk reading pace of a minute-and-a- half per page, that typically means more than half the author's prose is left on the cutting-room floor. Rather than tamper with the author's language, editors make an effort to select passages so that the narrative remains clear...
...wording. On our referendum, a "yes" vote overturns the council vote to increase the fee. On theirs, a "yes" vote upholds the fee. This would seem calculated to cause confusion. Worse, it makes a mockery of the binding nature of the petition. The term "binding" means the council cannot tamper with the resolution after the vote. But how can a resolution be "binding" if they can change it before the vote? The term becomes illusory...
...Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...
Although some students manage to break through the TF-student barrier, others don't tamper with it. And while love-lorn students may be frustrated by their unfulfilled longings, they can at least take comfort in the fact that their crush helps to keep them motivated. "Theta", a sophomore, says that she had a very strong crush on her match CA last year. As a result, she ended up going to every section, asking a lot of questions and turning in all her homeworks. "It got a bit ridiculous," she says. "I knew nothing could happen, so at one point...
...order to avert these invidious consequences, the Administration would be tempted to further tamper with already mutable accounting procedures. If, on paper, there is no deficit, then the amendment is moot. Nebulous government statistics would become even more bewildering, and accountability would sink amid a morass of bogus technicalities. The amendment would only provoke the government's further abdication of the very budgetary responsibility it was designed to foster...