Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held open the "first-use" option of employing nuclear weapons to repel a conventional Soviet attack in Europe, because the Warsaw Pact countries enjoy a considerable advantage over the West in total numbers of ground troops and tanks. Indeed, jittery Western Europeans urged the Truman Administration to adopt the first-use policy, and it has lasted for more than three decades with the full agreement of the alliance...
...gentleman's sport anymore. It's out of the country clubs and onto the streets. It's a multi-million dollar game. The core of the team--[senior Captain Adam] Beren. [junior Warren] Groomsman. Sands and me--knows what it takes to be a great, and we try to adopt to this mentality of toughness and extreme competitiveness...We don't feel that officials stand up for us so we have to stand up for ourselves...
...weeks ago ordered all 26 commercial banks in the country temporarily to stop processing or issuing import letters of credit and to cease approving applications for the conversion of Nigerian currency into foreign funds to pay for imports. Nigerian businessmen believe that their country will be forced to adopt still stricter import measures later this spring...
After this year, Cornell officials will review the plan to see if it has succeeded in attracting the most desired students. Scannell said. If it has not, or if cuts in federal aid do not continue. Cornell may then adopt a new policy, he added...
...many broken people have you seen around the House lately? No, not mentally broken people, not people who adopt English accents but recalls broken ones. The poor bastards hobbling on crutches and bald armpits because they twisted their ankle or broke their knee or something like that...