Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good way to rehabilitate them? Certainly, it will score them, but we are operating from the promise that much of the reason that people commit crimes is that they either do not know better or cannot help themselves to be rehabilitation to be educated, to be given a chance adopt a new lifestyle...
...during the rally; he most likely stayed away because he realized a battle on Jackson's terms would result in a strike against the University administration. For Jackson's credibility lies not in his ability to dissect an issues and put it in perspective, but in his appeal to adopt a consistent moral outlook to public issues. He claims to take the high road on issues ranging from South Africa to affirmative action, and to leave Bok and others far behind. But the reverend's own record demonstrates a more opportunistic view. He takes the political high road when...
...forceful advocate for U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam. Now he is closer to the antiwar activists who fought him. Along with McNamara, former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history professor at New York University. His conclusions about Viet Nam are the opposite...
...another, students in the Soviet Union often adopt, belatedly at least, Western fads. By turning to the thriving black market in Moscow and other cities, many Soviet teens manage to spend their spare rubles on imported designer jeans or bootleg tapes of Michael Jackson and Boy George. But Soviet youth have so far missed out completely on one craze that is sweeping much of the West: the computer boom. Most Soviet teens have never touched a personal computer, much less spent hours hacking away happily at a keyboard...
Harvard's stated policy for dealing with South African-involved companies does not explicitly include all of Kennedy's recommendations, but Bok said that Harvard is either investigating or already encourages companies to adopt those measures which Kennedy has espoused...