Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a similar use of ellipsis. "A Small, Good Thing" has the seductively simple ring of Hemingway titles like "The End of Something" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." And the men in Where I'm Calling From hunt, fish, drink and brawl. But although Hemingway's men adopt a tough exterior in order to hide when life or women get them down, Carver's men remain vulnerable, as husbands or fathers, and risk compassion...
...problem, says the OTA study, is that most U.S. managers, under pressure to show short-term profits, adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward innovation. Meanwhile, their foreign competitors, backed by government support, seek out | commercial applications more aggressively. Some proposed solutions: more joint ventures among industrial companies and increased Government funding of commercial development...
...recommendations came from U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, architect of the Administration's controversial zero-tolerance program, which briefly made headlines with the seizure of huge yachts found to be carrying minute amounts of drugs. Some suggestions are mild -- withholding some federal aid from states that fail to adopt strict antidrug policies. Others are radical -- flooding the market with "benign pseudo drugs" to confuse users. Says Von Raab: "The American people are going to have to suffer some inconvenience in order to win this...
Murphy will be working with the Boston Food Bank and the Adopt-a-Nursing-Home Program. "Harvard is an intense forum for liberal discussion, but City Year is finally a chance to turn words into action while we're here," he says...
Above all, try to keep some pride. Don't blame yourself for the break-up. Instead of analyzing every fault, think of your good qualities. Adopt the attitude that your ex is making a big mistake. The singer of the Young Rascals' "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" has the right idea: "Baby, you just lost the best thing you ever...