Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issued a communique agreeing that the Polish situation is "very complex and difficult." But one sign of some Kremlin tolerance was a decision to defer Poland's debt payments to the Soviets. It may have helped that Kania had not waited for his summons to the Crimea to adopt a hard line at home. Addressing the first session of the newly elected Central Committee in Warsaw early last week, he grimly warned: "We must find a way to make Polish streets peaceful again or the logic of events could lead to the greatest national tragedy." Speaker after speaker followed...
...charge, claiming "Sambo's" is a combination of the names of its two founders, Sam Battistone Sr. and F. Newell Bohnett. The company finally decided to switch rather than continue fighting. If No Place Like Sam's leads to sales increases in the Northeast, the company may adopt it nationally...
...Navy has been slow to adopt cruise missiles for offensive purposes, even though one admiral asserts: "Cruise missiles are categorically the most revolutionary development in naval warfare since nuclear power." The Navy is trying to make better use of missiles now, but in a way that still illustrates its big-ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet...
George Clements, 49, pastor of Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, formally adopted Joey, 13, a boy abandoned since infancy. The move has been in the making since last November when Clements tried in vain to get his parishioners to take in black children, whose adoption rate lags behind that of whites. The priest, an activist who once served as a Black Panthers chaplain, went before his congregation one Sunday and announced from the altar: "All right, if you won't adopt, then I will." Though the Catholic archdiocese was cool to the proposed...
...generally expect the Republican-conservative Democratic coalition to hold together on economic issues. In particular, prospects have brightened considerably that Reagan can persuade Congress to enact his proposal to reduce income tax rates 25% over the next three years, the second step in his economic policy revolution, rather than adopt the Democrats' proposal for a two-year...