Word: adopted
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...afflicted area rushed 7,000 pup tents, 26,000 blankets and ten tons of tea to the stricken villagers. After the daily newspaper Hurriyet printed a front-page photo of two young girls forlornly searching for their parents, it was flooded with calls from readers offering to adopt orphaned survivors. The government also received promises of several donations from abroad, including $10 million from Saudi Arabia and more than $2 million worth of supplies from...
Meaningful arms reduction is not going to take place until we adopt a "bilateral, verifiable freeze." By freezing the nuclear arms race now, we can sit down with the Soviets and look at what we have, not what we will have or might have. But if we continue to be hard-nosed about deploying new systems such as the MX and Pershing II, the arms race will never...
QUESTION 3 is a non-binding measure asking the city to adopt a six-point anti-displacement housing policy. It was placed on the ballot by a coalition of Cambridge tenants who developed the proposal to close what they perceived as loopholes in the city's rent control laws. Housing is a perennial political concern in Cambridge because market pressure could easily destroy the city's ethnic and economic diversity, transforming it into a bedroom community for Boston...
SOUTH AFRICA'S white electorate--approximately 8 percent of the 32 million people inside the country's traditional borders--votes today on whether or not to adopt a new constitution which will expand Parliament to include brown, but not Black Africans...
...controversy over the constitutional referendum in South Africa is a sign that the regime recognizes that it will have to change in the face of Black opposition. The change Botha chooses to adopt is one which will strengthen the Government's base of support by increasing the manpower for the South African Defense force...