Word: adopter
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...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational—but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...
...February of 1982, Wesleyan became the first major university to change its aid policy because of the Reagan cuts; the school’s trustees voted to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who could not pay full tuition...
...pipeline. After the men, who remained defiant in court, had spent 94 days in prison, Shell backed down and withdrew the injunction. By then, of course, the Rossport Five, as they became known, had rallied nationwide support for their "Shell to Sea" campaign, aimed at forcing the company to adopt the more expensive alternative of processing the gas at sea. Violent clashes with the police at Ballinaboy and in Dublin made headline news, although more recently a certain weariness has set in. "You'll not find much support for them down here," says a head teacher from the south...
...Laura wants more: to adopt imperiled children. They already have one: seven-year-old Simon (Roger Princep), a sweet, cheerful, sensitive boy who knows neither that he is adopted nor that he was born HIV positive. Surely Laura and Carlos love him at least as much as any birth child. But they are both beguiled and troubled by Simon's affinity for imaginary friends: Watson and Pepe, whose invisible eccentricities (as related by Simon) they've got used to, and a new companion, Tomas, whose influence seems much more malignant...
...used to be the guy who would explain some of the highly technical problems [the AI] has as a statistical instrument,” Lewis says. “But the basic idea of using it to ensure representativeness is exactly right. The Ivy presidents were smart to adopt it and to keep using it. It’s one of the things that keeps the Ivy League with an athletic program of which we can be proud...