Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group also opposes Harvard's plans to replace the Harvard Motor Inn with a seven-story structure. The organization would like a five-story maximum on all buildings. Gifford said her group would pressure the Cambridge Planning Board, which grants special permits for buildings above 60 feet, to adopt the ceiling...
Whether English-speaking readers adopt the Khazars with equal fervor remains to be seen. The runaway success of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1983) may be a precedent, since both novels offer murders mixed with medieval arcana. But Pavic does not convey anything resembling the suspense generated by Eco's relentlessly straightforward, deductive progress toward the darkness at the heart of an obscure monastery. Instead, in the "Preliminary Notes" to this presumptive dictionary, readers are advised to proceed in any manner or order they choose: "No chronology will be observed here, nor is one necessary...
...wasn't false in any way--there was nothingabout him that was superficial. He was 100 percentTom," said Pamela C. Mansfield, a high schoolfriend. "Perhaps his illness took away all thefacades we adopt throughout life, and hiswillingness to wade through them...
Unfortunately, only six houses have agreed to adopt this idea. The plan can only work if all houses are involved. To back both diversity and choice, all houses should signal their support for the plan...
...intifadeh, which has taken the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and seven Israelis since December 1987, remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from the remaining Arab-populated areas...