Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This paradox, he argues, is the source of a "splintering of styles"-the varied voices poets adopt when addressing the self and their own subjectivity. It is also the source of the critic's problems with judging poetry. Generalizations often prove useless or silly when applied to specific poets. Instead of glib categories, critics should produce analyses of the problems unique to the new poetry and assessments of poets as poets, rather than as representatives of their not-yet-defined generation...
...resolution calls for the severing of all ties between the College and the private, all-male social clubs, which have refused to adopt a non-discrimination policy required of all recognized student organizations...
...Assad's comments make clear, the only way to achieve peace in the Middle East is for this country to adopt an unbiased policy in that area. Americans will soon realize that close to $3 billion a year for Israel does not foster peace...
Another option is simply to walk away, adopt a live-and-let-live policy, and trust the Nicaraguans to stop trying to export their revolution. It is the Administration's view that this is totally unrealistic, no matter how conciliatory the Sandinistas' rhetoric has become...
Some experts argue that trying to reform the income tax system to raise more revenue will be a politically futile exercise. Charls Walker, a former Deputy Treasury Secretary in the Nixon Administration and now chairman of the American Council for Capital Formation, suggests that the U.S. adopt a value-added tax (VAT) similar to the kind used in most West European countries. A VAT is a tax levied on goods at each point of the production and distribution chain according to the value added at that stage. A tax on refrigerators, for example, would be collected from the manufacturer...