Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June, Khomeini has responded with a campaign to round up and execute political enemies. The toll thus far: over 1,000 killed and 10,000 imprisoned. Observers in Tehran believe adverse reactions both within Iran and abroad to the spate of killing have driven Khomeini's forces to adopt the late Shah's clandestine methods...
Political activity was not confined to issues of foreign policy. The same young people milling around Harvard Yard were, on other days, cramming City Hall to demand that Cambridge adopt a rent control law. In 1970, despite Sullivan's opposition, they succeeded, and the law has remained in place since, the single most divisive issue in the city. Support for it in recent years has come from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), now the local liberals but once a "good government" coalition that included Mickey the Dude...
...Helms had always wanted to adopt a child. In a 1962 newspaper article, Helms spotted a Greensboro orphan, age nine, who had cerebral palsy and wanted parents for Christmas. Helms succumbed. They arranged to meet at the zoo. Charles Helms, now 27, recalls: "I never will forget how tall Daddy was. I could tell right from the start that they were a unit and stuck together. I had never experienced that." Before the adoption became official, Helms gave the boy some baseball equipment. "If you won't keep me," asked Charles, "can I keep the glove and ball?" Charles, whose...
...sport or other school-related activity." Even Jepsen recognizes that his mishmash has no chance of passing Congress intact, so he proposes to put up seven sections for individual votes. One would, in effect, legalize prayer in public schools. The other six would provide tax incentives for people to adopt children and care for the handicapped and elderly dependents at home-which might indeed strengthen families but do nothing to further separation of the sexes or reinforce parental authority over children...
Saudi Arabia, OPEC's biggest single producer, sees the new market situation as an opportunity to replace OPEC'S current pricing free-for-all with a system of regular and more moderate price rises. The desert kingdom has adopted this strategy because its own oil interests are very different from those of the price hawks. Saudi Arabia has a small population and almost inexhaustible petroleum reserves. It wants to keep price increases moderate so that the industrialized countries will remain important clients for Saudi oil well into the 21st century and will not rush to adopt significant conservation...