Word: adopted
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...unpaid counsel for the defense in 1954 Fortas persuaded the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to adopt a broadened rule for criminal insanity ("An accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect"). That rule brought the law, which had not been changed for more than a century, in line with modern psychiatry. The decision has induced other jurisdictions to redefine insanity...
...French move was meant to minimize the jolt of this week's EEC action. Since its creation under the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the Common Market has gradually eliminated 85% of all internal tariffs. Now the last 15% will disappear. At the same time, the EEC will adopt common external tariffs, which will be automatically reduced by 40% in accordance with the Kennedy Round agreements. Also taking effect will be an agricultural common market with subsidized, uniform prices within the EEC and joint levies on imports from outside...
Princeton's effect on other campuses was strong. Just as Midwestern types had once adopted the button-down shirt and the rep tie from the Ivy League, they now began to adopt the sit-in as life style...
...trying to salvage and savor what remained of "college life." There was still some life to be had. The Student Council, led by Thomas Matters '43, president, and Adam Yarmolinsky '43, secretary, struggled on with eventful issues; but in October it merely recommended to the Faculty that Harvard adopt a year-long trimester schedule or keep the two semester-cum-twelve week summer period, and was immediately branded "powerless" for its equivocal efforts. On October 5, the Crimson football team locked helmets with mighty Penn, but though Coach Harlow's boys struggled like friends, they lost...
...lasted only 15 minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...