Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a young father-to-be, escorting his pregnant wife, came the ultimate observation. Said he: "The child will be born an American. We hope it will adopt...
...matter of good business, as well as from personal conviction, the average top executive spends up to one-third of his time on community projects (TIME, Sept. 24), expects his subordinates to follow his example. While businessmen had to be forced under protest to adopt measures such as the guaranteed annual wage and pension funds, they have voluntarily introduced profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans, launched vast human-relations programs that give the employee all manner of benefits from psychiatry to symphonies...
...also adopt economic sanctions against the Soviet agressors and those allies who have supported them. Certainly it should not be argued that a severe curtailment of trade would wreck the Communist economy, for the East-West volume is not that large. But the Communist bloc still depends largely upon Western Europe for much of the heavy machinery it needs to expand and industrialize, and if this supply were cut off, it would effectively limit these possibilities for the Russians...
...President must also place his moral influence behind the Supreme Court's decision. There must be immediate action to provide adequate classroom facilities and teaching salaries and benefits high enough to draw new personnel into the field. Further, the President should re-examine the needs of the aged and adopt a program of liberalized welfare benefits...
...read something known as the "D.P.," a sheet that regards itself as competition to the Philadelphia papers, according to the views of some editors. They believe this despite the fact that the Daily Pennsylvanian's Monday edition goes to press Friday or Saturday night. The paper does not adopt editorial policies on issues like the Presidential elections when the six executives disagree. Most editors, consequently, feel it is enough to cover College news...