Word: adopted
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President Reagan and Congress last week accepted the need for this "time out," appropriating more than half a billion dollars for flight testing of the missile. Now the U.S. will almost certainly adopt the MX--a measure which despite the Scowcroft recommendation it gained is in no way essential to the commission's argument...
Although this option is still under discussion, the administration will probably broaden departmental guidelines in the near future. Dean of the College Harriet Sheridan, who is chairman of the Educational Policy Committee, will most likely recommend strongly that more concentrations next year adopt related outside requirements such as a foreign language component or a computer literacy requirement...
...corrupt and generally incompetent officer corps. Until recently the army was no more than an overgrown police force that kept 9-to-5 hours, five days a week, in its halfhearted struggle against the leftist guerrillas, and this attitude is changing only very slowly. The commanders had refused to adopt counterinsurgency tactics, like using small mobile units to pursue the rebels. Most of the army's activity consisted of massive sweeps, after which the guerrillas would return to the disputed territory...
...drive to adopt metric, Americans are dragging their feet...
Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...