Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true in much of the Caribbean, Trinidad has severe economic problems; unemployment is rising, tourism is in trouble, and many islanders are disgruntled that they have not reaped the benefits of nationhood or industrial development. The boycott was a protest against the government's refusal to adopt certain electoral reforms. It enabled the Prime Minister's party to win all 36 seats in the lower house of Parliament, but the opposition scored a tactical victory by holding the turnout to only 32.9% of the nearly 353,000 eligible voters...
...immediate future," I concluded, "must be based on accommodation." The title of my article was "The Bases of Accommodation" and its central theme was the need for accommodation between the warring sides. I argued in my article that in order to achieve peace the U.S. government should adopt a political program designed to promote...
...concluded that the statutes of the University define "faculty" to include only Corporation appointees. "Under the foregoing provisions," the opinion states, "students are not included in the membership of the faculty. However, the Corporation, if it should deem it appropriate as a matter of policy to do so, could adopt a standing vote permitting any faculty to include in its membership students appointed by the Corporation for that purpose. Any student so appointed to a faculty could, as a member of the faculty, participate in its business...
...East represents a reluctant political retreat for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath. He promised to re-study, if not reverse, the pullout east of Suez that was pledged by Labor's Harold Wilson in 1968. But the harsh imperatives of economics have forced Heath to adopt Wilson's policy-with one important change. A loosely knit, five-power "consultative defense arrangement" with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand is scheduled to come into effect...
...dollar drain and would be desirable on other grounds as well. An end to the Viet Nam War is the most obvious. Domestically, the Nixon Administration could try to fight inflation by issuing guidelines for acceptable pay and price increases. Europe's moneymen have urged the U.S. to adopt such an "incomes policy," and have lost faith in the dollar partly because of Washington's failure to heed their advice. The Government could also stimulate recovery from recession by cutting taxes rather than relying as heavily as it now does on expanding the money supply and bringing down...