Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
While agreeing in principle, some doctors questioned Koop's fairness. Said Dr. Alan Nelson, chairman of the American Medical Association's board: "The incidences of refusal to treat AIDS patients are anecdotal and isolated." Both Koop and Nelson urge health-care workers to adopt preventive measures, such as wearing gloves, to avoid contamination...
...Shultz's key goals are to narrow differences in the way of a treaty to scrap U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles so it can be signed this year at a superpower summit and persuading the Soviets to adopt a short timetable for withdrawing 115,000 troops from Afghanistan...
...more important reaction to the foreign buyathon would be for Americans to adopt healthier economic habits. Those especially include a concentration on selling more exports and a curbing of the appetite for foreign goods, particularly luxury consumer items. Even there, the current bargain-basement sale of U.S. assets may eventually prove to be of some help. Quick to recognize the export advantages of the weak U.S. dollar, for example, the new management at Hoechst Celanese has already decided to move some chemical production from West German factories to American ones. At the same time, new managers like Sir Gordon White...
...dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says David Steinberg, a leading U.S. authority on the Philippines. "Cory can't leave that decision to the Almighty." Some of her fellow citizens were wishing she would adopt a less otherworldly policy for all her decisions...