Word: tamper
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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...
...plainly in need of an infusion of fresh capital. Marion Danielsen Campbell, 58, a New Yorker whose family has owned the magazine since 1938, spurned numerous corporate suitors while waiting for the right buyer to come along. Zuckerman had the requisite cash and professed no desire to tamper with the Atlantic 's venerable formula...
...Parishes will no longer be allowed to tamper with the text of the Mass...