Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislation would enable cities and towns to freely adopt ordinances or bylaws for restricting or controlling the conversion of rental housing to condominiums...
...Kinney O'Rourke, a spokesman for the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, said yesterday his organization opposes the measure because "regulations for condominium conversion should be uniform." By enabling localities to adopt their own regulations, landlords would have to face the "possibility, if not the reality, of 351 different local programs." he added...
...always been unfair to rate a Congress as either "do-nothing" or "rub ber-stamp," depending upon how it responded to a President's legislative desires. The current Congress, in particular, might well merit praise by refusing to adopt presidential economic policies that it considers too risky. But that is not enough. Inaction and stalemate on the economy can be as dangerous as errant action. The nation cannot afford a prolonged political confrontation between the White House and Capitol Hill. If the President will not yield, Howard Baker and his congressional cohort really have no choice; they must...
...less than 30 percent of the university population, 2621 people, cast their vote on the proposal, which--like the Kennedy-Hat-field resolution now before Congress and the freeze initiative on the state ballot in California this November--urges that the United States and the Soviet Union adopt a "mutual freeze on the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons...
...must organize to protest ourselves and to create a comfortable environment to live in. Here at Harvard, this means convincing the university to adopt a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexuality. Should a prospective freshman be forced to undersell himself by expunging anything gay-related from his application whether it be organizational activities or a favorite book. What of the senior who can find no one to advise the thesis of his choice? Without these few words of acceptance on record as University policy, we cannot do the most basic things. I certainly would not mention having...