Word: tampers
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...another factor--trepidation--underlies the College's reluctance to tamper with the "right" to a preferential lottery. To varying degrees, most officials agree that, in the words of one top administrator, "there are people who are missing some kinds of experiences because they don't have equal access to people of different kinds"--thanks to the impetus to clique-forming provided by a lottery based on choice. Yet because of administration perceptions that students would fight a more stringent system every step of the way, "everyone would prefer students to have freedom of choice...
Crowley speculated that eventually doctors may be able to use the drug to "tamper with the natural growth process." People who produce insufficient natural growth hormones, or who failed to grow normally because of kidney disease, malnutrition, or other disorders, might be able to use the drug to "catch up," he said...
Legislature attempts to tamper with the Tregor bill are counterproductive, he says; if it emerges from the State House open to legal challenge, then investors won't go near the plan. The "chamber is trying to help out the relationship between private and public sectors," he said...
...differ with Pendleton's conservative views, he is a proven administrator capable of running the agency. Nonetheless, some of Pendleton's new colleagues, three of them Democrats, are uneasy. "Most of us assume that we will be fired too," says one present commissioner. "To have an Administration tamper with the makeup of the commission after all these years is disturbing...
...govern less blatant cases of abuse really makes administrators squirm. At the core of the issue is the tension between the College's role as a haven for individual liberty and free expression and as a shaper of values, So it is not surprising that officials are reluctant to tamper with alcohol regulations. They act only when they must, like when Massachusetts jacked the state's drinking age up to 20 three years...