Word: adopted
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...Review staff voted Wednesday to adopt a "race-conscious" affirmative action policy, a policy that would actively take the race of candidates for the Review staff into account when selecting members. The staff postponed a decision on which specific policy it would adopt until December 2, but the only "race conscious" policy that has been formally submitted to the staff is the Review committee's proposal...
...husband, runs a small restaurant near Tijuana. She has been dramatized in the Mexican press as "Madre sufrida sin hija" (long-suffering mother without daughter). The Americans are Mark Johns, 42, and his wife Eileen, 39, who in 1975 traveled to Tijuana from their home in Fremont, Calif., to adopt a baby. Whether a transaction occurred and how legitimate it may have been remain murky. What is known is that the Johnses crossed back over the border with the child, whom they named Cynthia. A Mexican judge, acting on Macias-Rosales' complaint, issued a warrant for Mark Johns...
...Afghanistan may show that chance is not as great as some think, we recognize the distinct advantages for all concerned of bilateral disarmament. As first steps, our administration should work for a verifiable ban on all test explosions and on flight tests of guidance systems. We should also adopt the freeze on new productions recommended by millions of Americans who have signed a petition directed at Congress (even if such a freeze is unilateral, our overkill capability will make it a safe plan for us to follow). And from that base the United States and the Soviet Union must work...
...Adopt constitution...
...dollars involved in the operations of this cult. Each of the flower-vendor members can earn well over a thousand dollars a week. As well, the young members milk their parents for money all the time. Mr. Selover is correct when he writes that the Unification Church will not adopt a fortress mentality but will instead work within the system--for it is only in the American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed on capitalism and prey on its confused population. It is no act of rebellion to join, or be corrupted into joining...