The Pattern can be altered from season to season to allow for races to upgraded or downgraded where it is deemed appropriate.

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An open-source project (whose code can be altered by anybody), Firefox comes from a foundation, across the street from Google's offices, that happens to be based on the remnants of the old Netscape.

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His allowance is agreed at the start of his reign and can't be altered, save for inflation, to ensure the king's independence from Parliament.

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These trends, of course, may be altered by any number of developments, including the possible threats to cities from wars, environmental challenges or other large-scale disruptions.

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Almost every aspect of our lives from the social to the economic has been, and continues to be altered by the powerful forces of technological innovation.

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Apple has permanently altered what an in-store experience should be like and consumers are voting for experiences that matter from all brands on which they choose to spend their money.

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Instead, recollection appears to be more like placing a file from your hard drive into the text or video-editing software, where it can be altered or possibly even deleted.

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The average e-mail message contains reams of information that can be useful to an in-house spook, from the computer used to create the message to whether it was altered after it was received.

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