Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...totally different head." The girls grapple with such peers as Muffy Tepperman, the perennially earnest go-getter who organizes a dance so the class can adopt a starving Guatemalan child; Jennifer DeNuccio, a prototypical Valley Girl ("Like ... pass me out the door"); and a drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs...
...important talks, but its seclusion, easy access from the cottages occupied by Begin and Sadat, and good view looking south down the mountainside made it seem right. I told Begin that I reserved the right, and had the duty, to put forward compromise proposals, and might on occasion merely adopt either side's position if I believed it to be best. I assured him that I would not give to Sadat or to him any official U.S. proposals without discussing the unofficial drafts first with both sides. Begin insisted repeatedly that the Israelis see any American proposal before...
...newsman who understood the power of television in covering elections. Channel Seven feared it could influence several local races if it announced a projection based on exit polls before all the ballots had been cast. It is that kind of restraint which the rest of the media must voluntarily adopt if they are not to have a debilitating effect on the electoral process in the future. Television has become too smart for the country's own good...
...only way this voluntary standard will be implemented throughout the nation is if the government can get national media organizations to adopt uniformly the standards. If Channel Seven is to be the exception and not the rule, then there will be no incentive for Tom Ellis to continue withholding the results. Earlier and earlier projections will ensue and the outcome of many elections will be unfairly decided without many would-be voters...
...federal judge is expected to approve an agreement this week that would allow the Cambridge School Department to officially adopt an affirmative action hiring program for teachers, officials at the U.S. District Court of Boston said yesterday...