Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old General also proposed that the Army adopt smaller, more moveable divisions of about 10,000 men, instead of the standard 18,000 "As a result of the lessons of Grenada, it is clear that we need lighter forces in terms of deployment," Wickham said...
Katrina's new mother and father are one of hundreds of couples who flock to Charleston every year, drawn by the promise of easy adoptive parenthood. In most areas of the country, adoption is a frustrating process, burdened by the red tape and interminable waiting lists of state adoption agencies. Although a few other states also allow adoptions in local courts by nonresidents, South Carolina offers a unique blend of lax laws, aggressive lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state...
...portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that professors adopt a "balanced" approach in their teaching. Our response is two-fold; we find to evidence of a left wing monopoly at Harvard, nor can we find in the call for "balance" anything more than a disguised attempt at censorship...
...1970s a new generation of prison critics took a hard look at indeterminate sentencing and the parole system and concluded that the reforms needed reform. Both liberals and conservatives joined in a movement to do away with pa role boards and adopt fixed sentences...
...place of the new rigid policy, we urge the College to adopt the "golden rule" recommendation policy under which tutors are encouraged to include any and all information they themselves would like to see in an evaluation. This policy, already in place at the Medical School, offers a sensible alternative to indiscriminate tattling that holds potentially serious consequences for the student in question...