Word: adopted
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...board's Democrats also urged the Administration to adopt some additional revenue-raising measures. Pechman argued, for example, that doubling the federal excise tax on alcohol, gasoline and tobacco would bring in another $13 billion, and that enacting a windfall tax on decontrolled natural gas could result in anywhere from $10 billion to $20 billion more Government revenue...
Kudos to Massachusetts on becoming the eighth state to adopt a bottle bill [Nov. 30]. During our summer clean-up campaign we found beverage containers far surpassed paper-type litter. No matter what the bottle industry claims, their product has made our beautiful Arizona desert the garbage pit of America...
Part of the remedy is for the Department of Health and Human Services to provide a uniform definition of delinquency and for schools, which are responsible for administering the loans, to adopt tougher collection policies. According to the Senate committee's case-by-case review of loans to Harvard medical students, 24% are in arrears. The university, however, claims that only 5% of medical and dental students with loans are delinquent. One reason for the differing rates: a partial payment, even on a long-overdue loan, can take a debtor off the school's delinquency roll. Last month...
There may still be a way out, though. The State House of Representatives last week passed a bill that would give the Cambridge City Council the power to override 2 1/2 and levy new taxes, and sent the bill to the Senate. We urge the Senate to adopt the measure, the governor to sign it, and the city council then to use its newfound powers to override the veto...
...Lives cat-food commercials on TV. Not only does Morris exhibit no discernible emotional disorders, he is unflappable. With dubbed TV lines like "Oh, really? Here, kitty, kitty, indeed! Dinner had better be very good," Morris won the 1973 Patsy Award as the best animal actor in TV commercials. Adopted from a humane society, Morris became so famous that his "story" was told in Morris, an Intimate Biography. After he died in 1978, a 14-month search turned up a replacement in a Cape Cod animal shelter. This foundling, like his predecessor, lives on the six-acre kennel of Trainer...