Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Bok stated, Harvard's governing Corporation will soon adopt a change in its investment guidelines "that may lead to the sale of stock of firms selling substantial quantities of goods used in the administration of apartheid...
...might represent the last gasp of a class (European, intellectual, well-to-do) that is being smothered by the rise of the masses. None of the possible interpretations seems as interesting as the novel's deceptively plain but beguiling language. The wise reader of Mr. Palomar might best adopt a strategy that the hero formulates but fails to follow: "Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: stick to what...
...years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...
Persuading Congress to adopt tax reform is not unlike treating addiction. ( Congressmen have become so dependent on trading tax breaks for political favors from special interest groups that the only way they can stop now is to go cold turkey. For a Congressman to say he can make an exception for one lobbyist but not another is like an alcoholic swearing he can take just one drink...
...across this country." Flanked by union officials and city aides, he announced last week that municipal pay scales would be adjusted so that salaries for jobs held mainly by women would be comparable to those for positions traditionally held by males. Los Angeles thus became the largest city to adopt the controversial system of "comparable worth," which attempts to calculate the value of different jobs, from secretary to warehouseman, based on factors such as education, responsibilities and work conditions. Claimed Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: "The momentum in eliminating sex bias from...