Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argues that testing is needed to ensure the reliability of its arms stockpile. While continuing with tests, the U.S. has proposed that on-site monitors be permitted to verify the current ban on detonations with yields greater than 150 kilotons. When the U.S. suggested in March that both sides adopt a new, sophisticated verification system called CORRTEX, the Soviets rejected it. Two months later, however, the Soviets struck their agreement with the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...capsule together. Eli Lilly last year made available to U.S. manufacturers a similar technique. A band of gelatin is placed around the waist of the capsule, where the two pieces overlap. That makes it tougher to open the casing without leaving a mark. But companies were slow to adopt the new technology, apparently because they thought that sealing the pill bottles was sufficient protection...
...Echoed a spokesman for Sterling Drug, maker of Panadol and Midol pain relievers: "We are still marketing the capsules. But it's a fluid situation. Any instance, such as the recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products." A prudent middle course would be for all manufacturers to adopt one of the new technologies for safer capsules as quickly as possible. If that does not stop the poisonings, the companies may have to swallow hard and abandon capsules for good...
...wrong? McDonald's would never lose business over a few pickles. With billions and billions of hamburgers, that would translate into trillions of pickles and at least millions of dollars. In addition, it would all be tax deductible as charitable donations. There was no possible reason not to adopt the plan, except they did not know...
This combination of money and technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter...