Word: adopted
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...Research and Development in Information Technologies (ESPRIT). Its proponents believe that the $1.3 billion five-year plan for cooperative research in microelectronics and data processing could lead to at least a partial, Europe-wide standardization in products of the future. Twelve participating ESPRIT companies agreed in March to adopt common specifications for computers and office equipment, and telecommunications officials have begun to discuss common guidelines for buying new equipment. Last March, French President François Mitterrand visited California's Silicon Valley and liked what he saw. "We know that our country is late in undertaking this phase...
...long jump or Mark Breland will take an Olympic gold in boxing, others have focused on questions of more fundamental import: Will Beth stay with Lujack or return to Phillip? Can Jenny recover from the explosion that nearly killed her? Will Julie and Tyler be able to adopt Scotty? And where is Ryan's Hope...
...from Gaston's perspective, the Renaud family remains decidedly unreal, a chorus of voices in a buried conscience. In one day Gaston is forced to adopt the guilt of the 18 years he lived as Jacques Renaud, to both condemn and deny the man he once was. The intrigues of the Renand family would certainly be far easier to dramatize, but Director Holly Swartz has opted to focus on the more compelling, psychological drama of Gaston until the tension between guilt, responsibility and freedom reaches a disturbing, unresolved height...
Tuesday come the platform debates, five in all. Jackson's forces will offer minority planks calling for the U.S. to adopt a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, cut defense spending sharply, commit itself to enforce affirmative-action goals in the hiring of minorities, and end the second, or runoff, primaries used in ten states when no candidate wins a majority of the vote. (Jackson argues that runoffs are discriminatory because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly...
...Harvard, activists have fought unsuccessfully for more than a decade to get the University to adopt a similar policy and divest from all companies operating in South Africa in an attempt to get the country to end its segregated apartheid system...