Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quite simply, Bush will have no Presidential honeymoon. Democrats in Congress will punish Bush for his say nothing campaign. They have no incentive to adopt Bush's proposals, because he offered none for popular referendum. Bush will be little more than a four-year lame duck...
...Americans prefer to have a choice between candidates. To annoint Sam Nunn, Bill Bradley or Lloyd Bentsen as the party's standard-bearer is tantamount to telling the electorate, "Well, sure, we're the Democratic Party, but we're the Democratic Party, but we're going to try to adopt the Republican Party's ideals, and try to convince you that we can do a better job at being conservative that they...
...tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
Still, DNA printing is not yet automatically acceptable in court as evidence. Judges now rule on its admissibility on a case-by-case basis. But the methodology, which has long been used in biological research, is expected to survive legal challenges, and the FBI is moving rapidly to adopt the technique...
...virulence of the nationalist outbursts prompted authorities in Belgrade to put civil-defense units on a state of alert. More ominously, Yugoslav President Raif Dizdarevic warned on national television that further unrest could force him to adopt "extraordinary conditions," a euphemism, presumably, for emergency police powers...