Word: adopted
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Authoritarian approaches do not lead to lasting political solutions. Israeli leaders must adopt a different attitude toward dissent or betray the democratic ideals on which their nation was founded. The U.S. can back Israel without backing intolerance and oppression. American influence in Israel is enormous. It should support more democracy, not less...
Peter Schwartz, publisher of the leading objectivist journal, The Intellectual Activist, said Reagan's current defense policy amounts to nuclear reduction through negotiation and "is the most immoral doctrine we could adopt...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis called on the federal government to adopt his urban renewal program, which he credited with saving the dying cities of Massachusetts, in the keynote address of this weekend's Kennedy School conference on leadership in large cities...
When Reagan appointees gained a majority on the seven-member Federal Reserve board of governors last February, predictions abounded that the central bank would adopt a more stimulative monetary policy in an effort to pump up the economy. After all, the Reaganite faction would be led by Manuel Johnson, the current Fed vice chairman, who is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, certified supply sider and onetime critic of the Reserve Board for being too tightfisted in its fight against inflation. So far, the new lineup seems to have done its job. Since last March the Fed has steadily...
...worried: "America is now sauntering through her resources and through the mazes of her politics with easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old -- a country crowded, strained, perplexed -- when she will be obliged . . . to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members...