Word: adopted
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General Motors is not the only major corporation to adopt intrapreneurship. Data General, DuPont, Texas Instruments and AT&T are all trying to nurture intrapreneurs. Even smaller companies are trying to catch the spirit. At W.L. Gore & Associates, a privately held firm in Delaware founded by the husband- and-wife team of Wilbert and Genevieve Gore, the employees, or "associates" as they are called, are grouped into teams of no more than 150 to 200 people to encourage new and different ideas and products. One such team developed GORE-TEX, a line of insulating fabrics used in space suits, tents...
Frustration is leading some growers to adopt militant new tactics. About 170 farmers in Iowa agreed two weeks ago to join forces with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In this unusual arrangement, the Teamsters will lobby state and federal officials for a moratorium on farm foreclosures and will provide legal aid to fight bankruptcies; meanwhile, the farmers will help push for the repeal of Iowa's right-to-work law. In Washington, Iowa, more than 150 friends and supporters of Roger Escher, 38, took a different tack. They stood silent last month and refused to bid in the auctioning...
...council asked the President and meeting chairman Edwin R. Meese III for policy changes, including the promotion of private ownership of public housing, funding to enable poor Black children to attend private schools, and a reform in the foster care system, making it easier for low income persons to adopt children in public charge...
...first lecture, never attended section, and never so much as skimmed through any of the 14 required textbooks. On the day of the final, he walked into the exam room, realized that the ensuing three hours were bound to be little more than a wretched farce, and decided to adopt the noblest course of action he could...
Officials at Yale, where this year's freshman class has highest number of Asian-Americans ever, say they, like Harvard, will adopt the same policy of less aggressive Oriental recruitment in the future