Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter, signed by 206 of the 1350 members of the class and drafted by the American Friends Service Committee-urges the United States and the Soviet Union to "adopt a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons...
Even after Roosevelt's landslide victory, Congress was reluctant to enact a plan that seemed far too radical to some members. Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance...
...hope that Mr. Pattullo's letter, as well as the response to it, will encourage the President and Fellows of Harvard College, as well as the Faculty, to adopt a firm policy of nondiscrimination towards gays and lesbians, both students and employees. To live freely and without fear cannot be too much to ask. Elizabeth R. Brown Cambridge...
...urge Rosovsky to adopt Marius excellent recommendation and take whatever steps are necessary to make the training program attractive to section leaders Remunerating graduate students in the program financially or with academic credit would be one way to assure that the program does not become onerous and unpopular...
...survey of the condition of governance in the Ivy League finds some tangible similarities and differences between what Harvard is about to adopt and what recently has been established elsewhere. Regardless of the applicability of comparison because of unique features like Harvard's House system and Cornell's large size, leaders acknowledge one common and indisputable enemy: pervading apathy. Despite the new student government in Ithaca. Cornell undergraduates continue to stay away from the polls; the most recent vote drew 19 percent of the campus, the largest turnout in years, according to one student government officer. In that election, just...