Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some nonprofit hospitals are starting to adopt methods pioneered by private enterprise ones. One example is satellite treatment centers. These are small, independent facilities where the staff can perform minor surgery, deliver babies, treat alcoholism and offer other care that does not require the full resources of a hospital. As a result, costs to the patient can be cut by as much as 50%. In Beverly, Mass., Beverly Hospital has established satellite facilities on its grounds, including a delivery center for mothers who prefer the more intimate setting and a nutrition and weight-loss clinic...
...other Cambridge--the one in England--students adopt a different approach to the completion of the academic year. In contrast to Harvard students, who disappear to presumably greener pastures after handing in their final blue book the overseas Cantabrigians take some time off and linger around campus awaiting their exam results. The occasion, naturally is used as an excuse for widespread partying, a phenomenon which has attracted a fair degree of attention in certain international circles...
...catchy school song by one "Beryl Waddle-Browne," an anagram for the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber). It is a sparkling, spanking-new parody of the Brazil novels that manages to be at once knowing and wide-eyed. The entire cast is darling-one wants to adopt the lot of them-led by Alexandra Mathie as Daisy, the poor but brilliant girl who ingratiates herself with classmates and audience alike...
...summit brings a show of unity, and the Soviets adopt a friendlier tone...
...Harvard Foundation is an agency established by the Administration and Faculty of the University to improve racial understanding. It is a new and very promising idea--a Harvard idea that we hope other institutions throughout the country will adopt. Experience has shown that whenever large numbers of persons of different racial backgrounds live and work together, there will likely be misunderstandings, tensions, and conflicts. Al institutions should establish some agency whose programs and policies seek to improve racial understanding, to encourage persons of different racial backgrounds to interact around mutual interests with the aim of reducing racial hostilities. This...