For his part, Liddy, who took over at AIG in September, after the government stepped in, said he knew about the bonuses since October but determined they could not be legally altered.

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The law has not yet been altered but a Cabinet Office spokesman says formal consent is expected "very shortly" and ministers have indicated that the legislation will apply to any royal births from the date of the leaders' decision.

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Lastly, Republicans think that the social changes in the South may have altered the region, but have not made it less distinctive.

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That activity not only altered his role at GPH but may well have constituted engaging in private securities transactions, for which separate approval is required.

FORBES: Stockbroker's Outside Business Activity Becomes FINRA Private Securities Transaction

An employment tribunal found she had not been subjected to religious discrimination, but BA later altered its uniform code to allow symbols of faith, including crosses.

BBC: UK

But detectives, tipped off by the coroner, did not notice Shipman had altered some of his victims' medical records retrospectively.

BBC: Shipman murders inquiry opens

In other words, the metrics have been altered to track not so much the cost of things, but the cost of living (or more accurately, the cost of surviving).

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In a world in which people have altered the climate system, it is not only inaccurate, but also irresponsible and even untenable to continue to view civilisation as separate and distinct from nature.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Or somebody who believes, as the ranking member of the Energy Committee, that the apology is due not to the people of the Gulf whose lives have been altered but to the company that caused it.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing