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Word: adopted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total revenues and expenditures was established in England about 200 years ago, the Chancellor's report was called a budget. Ever since then, government finance officers have been trying (sometimes with success) to hold budgets in balance. The U.S. Government, a comparative newcomer to the process, did not adopt the budget system until 1921. Since then, it has been able to strike a balance less than one-third of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: The Distended Pouch | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Last week in North Carolina, the biggest paper in the state showed how Southern dailies are making the best of it. The Charlotte Observer (circ. 136,302) opposed a proposal for the state legislature to adopt a "declaration of policy" favoring segregation, saying that debate on such a measure would only "offer a forum . . . for the more importunate voices−a stage and a place in the headlines for opportunists." Most newsmen agree that the biggest newspaper problem is to fight hotheaded extremists on both sides. Such rabble-rousers as Race Agitator Bryant Bowles and Florida Sheriff Willis McCall (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The No. 1 Story | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Hennings bill, incorporating safeguards for both the committee and the witness, is a necessary amendment to Senate procedure. The House, too, should adopt similar rules revisions that would curb offending committees without hindering investigations that are conducted fairly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Points of Order | 1/13/1955 | See Source »

...College Entrance Board is also sending representatives to these meetings. "The fact seems to indicate that it might adopt features of these tests," Hanson said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty to Help Make Advanced Placement Tests | 12/1/1954 | See Source »

...Princeton Edwards stated, "We feel as does Bender. We would adopt such a measure with reluctance. But with the tremendous increase in applications, it may have to come as a means of paying our own way. We certainly would not adopt such a move just to cut down on the number of applicants...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Big Three May Impose $10 Fee on Applicants | 11/26/1954 | See Source »

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