Word: adopted
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...meetings that he is often invisible. As a result, they do not regard him as a player who has a major influence on decisions made by the President. There are some noteworthy exceptions, however. Bush argued against upgrading the jet fighters sold to Taiwan, a position that Reagan eventually adopted. And he firmly urged Reagan to adopt sanctions against Poland and the Soviets soon after the imposition of martial...
...FIRST STEP to joining this social elite, apparently, is to emulate the fellow who made it into the Exclusive Social Club and adopt the so-called "Molloy's Class Mask." The key to becoming so facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle...
...correct the imbalance, the Review first voted to adopt a rigid quota system. Three editors quit, and dissension among the rest was so great that two weeks later, by a 44-36 vote, the journal decided merely to allow race and sex to be considered in choosing up to eight of the 48 editors. That too drew heavy fire, and the Review put the matter on hold for nearly a year. Last month the editors narrowly approved the mildest plan yet. Starting this spring, minority applicants may submit statements describing "economic, societal, or educational obstacles that have been overcome...
...support this thesis, the authors adopt a casebook approach. They select 14 incidents from the U.S. past, ranging chronologically from the Jamestown colony to Watergate. They show how each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...
Wesleyan University this weekend became the first major university to announce publicly a shift in financial aid policy because of costs, when its trustees voted unanimously to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who cannot pay full tuition...