Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bosworth said Americans must be willing to adopt an approach to fighting inflation which goes beyond considerations of fiscal and monetary policy...
...university, protected in the constitution of the Commonwealth, is currently exempt from any regulations the city passes. But this exemption may not stand much longer. A bill repealing Harvard's exemption on this particular issue has already passed State Senate and House committees. The Commonwealth is expected to adopt the legislation later this year...
...Citizens' Party will not engage in politics-by-label--damning a proposal just because someone has called it 'socialist,'" Lens said. In the end, the convention voted overwhelmingly to adopt his plank, which included calls for the nationalization of certain key industries...
What future precautions the police may adopt in response to Saturday's incident remain unclear. Community pressure, however, makes it more likely that police will pay more attention to preventing future rapes...
...developing nations of the Third World that capitalism today is weakest. Most new countries lack an entrepreneurial class, and they usually adopt some form of statism. Often, existing elites in tribes or clans prefer a centralized system that reinforces their own authority...