Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swifter return of the skyjacked passengers, crews and planes. Frank Loy, deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation and telecommunications, told a congressional committee last week that Castro is "fed up" with the skyjackings. If they continue at their present rate, he said, the Cuban government "may adopt measures of its own" to stop them...
...robbers are far more sophisticated than Bonnie and Clyde. Although retired Boston Bank Robber Teddy Green cheerfully calls cameras "the best weapons the banks have," bankers complain that robbers are too often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that has done so is Washington's aptly named Security Bank. After three robberies at one branch in 55 days last summer, Security decided to lock the front door permanently. Customers enter through a rear door, and tellers work behind tall panes of Plexiglas...
...Committee should request the Faculty to adopt the proposal of the HRPC that Harvard undergraduates be permitted to cross-register in African courses at Boston University's African Studies Program, provided the consent of the Committee and the student's Department is obtained...
...Committee should request the Faculty to adopt the additional proposal of the HRPC that the procedure for cross-registration by Harvard students in M.I.T.'s African courses be described in the Harvard Catalogue of Courses...
...FACULTY has finally made its decision on the future of military training at Harvard, and the outcome, by and large, is encouraging. In passing over the recommendations of its own Committee on Educational Policy to adopt the resolution of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, the Faculty showed itself sensitive to student opinion and willing to break with tradition. The decision will strengthen the SFAC, which only a few months ago appeared beaded for oblivion. And most importantly, it strikes a blow against the privileged position of the military forces at Harvard, something which the equivocal and vague CEP recommendation would...