Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first requirement is for Harvard, at the highest level, to adopt a comprehensive, affirmative, and specific personnel policy directed especially at the question of recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting of disadvantaged workers. Here, as elsewhere, action has been in response to pressure, but rarely in accord with any policy...
...existing campuses as a supplement to the conventional academic programs. Tuition is rarely more than $5 or $10 a semester; teachers contribute their services, and classes meet in borrowed houses, apartments or dormitory rooms. At best, the shadow schools are laboratories for testing academic reforms that regular institutions then adopt...
...from taking public sides on this issue because my natural inclination has been to favor voluntary over legislated change. George Washington would have recognized that I might have been naive. In a letter to John Jay in August, 1786, he wrote, "experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coervice power". Even today I would prefer that he had substitued "regulation where necessary" for "coervice power...
...plague on all three houses-the legislative, the executive and the judicial ! Until all three adopt a rigid code of ethics and stick to it, this kind of outcry is cant and hypocrisy...
...industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...