Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...later? Every sign now indicates that the President, prodded by Chief Economist Paul McCracken and Budget Boss George Shultz, has made a decision to go for speedy, job-creating growth. It remains to be seen whether John Connally, Nixon's surprise choice for Secretary of the Treasury, will alter the strategy. Though he has Texas populist roots, Connally is considered to be an economic conservative...
...statistical average, each American adult this season will send, and receive, at least 15 cards. That means the bells of stationery store cash registers will ring up U.S. sales of $300 million this Christmas−glad tidings to about 200 card companies. Like the automakers, the card publishers alter their models annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps...
...other hand, you possess an unfashionable commitment to education; if you feel that art can both refine man's sensibilities and alter the world he lives in, then you may find Mr. Sarris's autcurist flag a more than slightly distasteful emblem of the liberal bourgeois' 50's and 60's frivolity...
...raids are another in a series of gameboard moves to "show the Communists that the United States means business"; no amount of external pressure or internal political divisions can alter our determination to place the South Vietnamese countryside solidly in Thieu's hands whether, in fact, it is inhabited...
...Buffalo researchers speculated that the difficulty may have been caused partly by a natural chemical hostility between the different strains. Despite this obstacle, scientists may someday produce amoebae with totally new characteristics. It may be possible, for example, to remove one component of an amoeba, alter it with drugs or radiation, and then insert it into the cell again. The artificially induced changes might then be passed on to the amoeba's offspring. Indeed, Danielli, who holds three doctorates (chemistry, physiology and biochemistry), seems certain that the work "opens up a new era of artificial life synthesis...