Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicizing the alligator problem, Hickel is bringing powerful pressure to bear on Congress to adopt strong conservationist legislation. He supports a measure that would make it a federal offense to ship across state lines any animal or bird considered to be threatened with extinction, or their skins, pelts or plumage. Carrying with it a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, the law might serve to slow down some of the alligator-skin traffic...
Overdue Measures. "This is what we've been warning people about for months," says Chairman Joseph O'Connell of the National Transportation Safety Board (TIME, May 10). The tiny agency (250 staffers), which has no enforcement power, has been trying to get railroads to adopt long-overdue safety measures. Derailments are the leading cause of train accidents, which increased by 71% between 1961 and 1968. "With the railroads hauling more hazardous materials, the potential for catastrophic accidents bothers the hell out of me," says O'Connell...
...January 21, 1969 ruled that Youth Fare was 'unjustly discriminatory" and must be canceled. Acceptance of the Examiner's Report -- a routine formality in most cases--was held up this time by the CAB in order to allow the Board to "independently review" the matter. Should the Board adopt the Report--and a decision is expected late this month--Youth Fare will be dead before exam period begins...
Fine Arts 13 received some sharp criticism, as the audit suggested that the course adopt "a far more positive stress on developing a method of thinking, an approach to art, rather than simply gorging students with a mass of information and rhetorical terminology...
Governor Warren G. Knowles last night asked the Wisconsin State Legislature to adopt a bill saying...