Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what a university preparation is about, learning to judge, learning to think. I am constantly amazed by the distortions and untruths I find in reports and comments about subjects on which I am informed. I therefore cannot help but have a healthy skepticism. I encourage you to adopt the same attitude. It is wise to remember, as my father says, that some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great economy...
...center but help Begich campaign for the seat once held by her husband. Begich, who lost a close race for the seat two years ago, is attempting to follow in the footsteps of Boggs, who has filled her husband's former seat since the plane crash. Said Begich: "She adopted me once before; I suppose it is reasonable that she'll adopt me again...
Spence said that in the future the Universitymay adopt a new policy for dealing with protestsof this sort so that similar protests "will haveto be preceded by prior understandings about theirlocation and duration...
...earned Cicero, Ill. (pop. 62,000), a reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change its ways. Bowing to a consent decree, the town will adopt a fair-housing resolution and eliminate its rule against hiring only residents for municipal jobs. Few observers were impressed. Said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mel Ford Jordan: "It is an action consistent with 1860, which for Cicero is progressive." Town President Henry Klosak, noting that Cicero has been subject to federal...
...introduction to this selection of 15 stories from four earlier books, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala notes the problem that faces all foreigners who settle on the subcontinent: "To live in India and be at peace, one must to a very considerable extent become Indian and adopt Indian attitudes, habits, beliefs, assume if possible an Indian personality. But how is this possible? And even if it were possible--without cheating oneself--would it be desirable? Should one want to try to become something other than what...