Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation is likely to get worse. Convinced that the U.S. will adopt some kind of national health-insurance plan, the Carnegie Commission views the current problem as "a mere ripple in comparison with mounting waves of problems to be faced when the financial barriers to health care are lowered." To meet a demand for ever more doctors, it urges medical schools to update the Flexner plan and to adopt a program that it says could fill the physician gap by 1980. Among its recommendations...
According to Mrs. Belin, "There is a direct relationship between scholarship funds and admissions policy. If we do not have enough money, we may have to give preference to the girls who can pay their own way." However, she added that Radcliffe has not yet decided whether to adopt an admit/deny policy...
...conclude its deliberations until spring. Whatever that decision may be, it will leave hanging the persistent pattern of "resegregation." Growing numbers of whites, for example, are sending their children to the South's private "segregation academies." When Alabama's Jefferson County was ordered to adopt unitary desegregation this fall, white suburbs formed their own tiny districts. The toughest problem of all is the movement of whites to outlying residential suburbs. Example: in Little Rock, Ark., where Central High School was desegregated 13 years ago, the proportion of white students has shrunk from 75% to 61% and is still...
...Common Market countries want to go further and create a Eurocurrency to rival the dollar, they will gradually have to give up much of their individual autonomy. For example, they would have to harmonize their policies that affect both inflation and economic growth rates. Ultimately, they would have to adopt a common tax system and jointly set national budgets. Having done all that, the Common Market could expand its present customs union into a full economic and monetary confederation. Thereafter, member countries would no longer be able to finance government deficits (except with the consent of the confederation...
...should be made in the markets to cope with the great rise in institutional trading? By year's end the SEC is due to publish a long awaited report on this touchy subject. If direct trading in stocks is to be put under controls, it makes sense to adopt them only as part of a large overhaul of SEC rules...