Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad" as a prop to internal discipline...
...Creative Artist, Morris had several alternatives: one, to adopt and adjust to the new standards; two, to change the old ones; or three, to protest. Since the first two were impossible for Morris, he started shouting (discreetly, late in the night, at a typewriter). Morris was one with Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill, and all the other neurotics who never really adjusted to Harvard, as contrasted with James Gould Cozzens, Eliot, Edward Arlington Robinson, and George Santayana--the crew of the Cambridge chambered nautilus, the Brattle Street spiritus mundi...
...World Health Organization, served as chairman (1948) of the first World Health Assembly, ran it with what one delegate called a "unanimity complex," bringing all considerations to the personal level with such stock remarks as "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item" and "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal"; after long illness; in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...
...standards. They have not worked at all on 58 of the 142 draft recommendations for standards now being considered, including standards for such big export items as steel and textile machinery. Many standards may therefore be set up contrary to U.S. design, shutting U.S. goods out of nations that adopt them as effectively as do high tariffs, currency restrictions or import quotas...
Since U.S. industrial technology leads the world, many nations could easily be persuaded to adopt U.S. standards as international, thus open up new markets for U.S. products. But while U.S. businessmen have dallied, the world has not waited. Great Britain, France and The Netherlands have taken the lead in standard setting, and even Russia has participated in one-third more standardization conferences than the U.S. Young industrial nations are already finding it easier to adopt British. French or even Russian rather than U.S. standards. In the last ten years, India has adopted some 1,000 national standards; most were British...