Word: adopted
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There may be no more difficult presidential task than determining when the time has come to reshape policy, to adopt new tactics and even to eat a few words. ("I have eaten a great many of mine," said Winston Churchill, "and on the whole, I have found them a most wholesome diet.") Every successful President eventually learns that flexibility is salvation. The presidential bone yard is strewn with markers of those who would not change...
...Faculty Council yesterday discussed sexual harassment policy with three members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and asked the group to prepare a formal recommendation of what policy and definition it would urge the Faculty to adopt on the issue...
Members are also preparing a pamphlet on non-discrimination policy which will represent their position on the issue, and are preparing to ask the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution calling on the Faculty Council to adopt such a measure...
...Tylenol killer and his imitators are lumbering along. The FDA last week submitted a proposed regulation on tamper-resistant packaging of over-the-counter drugs to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. The regulation would not specify which of many types of packaging the industry should adopt; it would set a standard for the industry to meet in any way that companies might choose. Estimates are that new packaging will cost the industry between $20 million and $30-million a year and will add anything from a penny to a dime to the price of nonprescription drugs...
...improvements in education, in the environment." Pasquino believes too that the socialists in all three countries are perceived as more reliable defenders of jobs. "It is not so much that they have been able to claim they will create more jobs," says Pasquino, "but they can promise not to adopt policies that will lead to greater unemployment." Big expectations, however, can become a political liability, as Mitterrand has learned, as Papandreou is learning, and as González may discover...