Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance. Peter B. Paris '91, who asked Gore to describe the programs he supported on behalf of lower-income Americans, said that he was "satisfied in a general sense but not in a specific sense." Paris noted that Gore's response failed to identify specific proposals that he would adopt if elected...
...requires that takeover artists who buy between 15% and 85% of a Delaware-registered company wait three years before selling off assets or merging the target firm with another one. The effect will be to tie up raiders' money and make financing tougher. Delaware felt compelled to adopt the legislation partly because 32 other states already offer similar protection...
...others at the Institute of Politics panel discussion urged states to adopt stricter gun control laws as a way of cutting the crime rate...
...find such experiments naive, but beware. This show has a message in it, like a rock in a snowball. What do the invariably polite Japanese really think of the dozens of American artists in the past few decades who have tried to adopt the forms, or at least the rhetoric, of Zen brush painting? What do Americans' earnest spoutings about calligraphy, meaning any aesthetic scribble, convey to real calligraphers? Provincialism is a two-way street...
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the field narrows drastically, long before voters in larger states can cast a ballot. Most candidates must adopt an identical strategy: labor mightily for an early kill while preparing for an endurance run later. Schedule and rules, far more than issues and message, dominate...