Word: adopted
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...response to the controversy, Georgia President Fred Davidson ordered the university's coaches not to accept any more partial qualifiers. Because this rule would place Georgia's teams at a competitive disadvantage, the coaches successfully lobbied the Southeast Conference (SEC) to adopt the regulation for all of its member schools...
...painful as the task may be, economists insist that the deficit must be cut. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh: "The most important factor in determining whether we have a recession in the next two years is going to be whether we adopt a credible deficit- reduction program...
Today the orthodox P.D.R.Y. is embracing a modest version of perestroika. By local standards the reforms are radical: encouraging private farms, welcoming Western investment and reorganizing state-run industry. In the capital of Aden, the latest ruling Politburo has called the country's Central Committee into session to adopt such bold measures as more funding for private and cooperative farms and better pay to spur greater productivity among state farm workers...
Prospects are so dire that some environmentalists urge the world to adopt the goal of cutting in half the earth's population growth rate during the next decade. "That means a call for a two-child family for the world as a whole," explained Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "In some countries there may be a need to set a goal of one child per family." That is a daunting challenge. During the past decade, many of the world's poor nations condemned the notion of family planning as an imperialist and racist scheme touted by the developed...
...planning experts to create well-tailored programs for different societies and even for different segments of societies. But first, governments will have to raise public awareness and rally support for population control with a cohesive message about the dangers of rampant growth. India, one of the first countries to adopt a family-planning program, some 30 years ago, failed to forge a national will for the task, and the population is now growing at 2% a year...