Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report, the ACSR did little more than present the alternatives the Corporation may choose to adopt in dealing with portfolio companies operating in South Africa. It made recommendations that fall far short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid, focussing on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the larger issues of U.S. corporate involvement...
...English preserve their monarchy -an expensive anachronism-as a symbol of their past glory. A nation that can adopt the idea of inherent inequality, a premise upon which monarchy is based, can also adopt the idea of its own superiority in the family of nations...
Knowing that Michigan law forbids the sale of babies, Noel Keane, the Dearborn attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...
Instead, his tactic of totally debasing the enemy by casting him only as a "PLO lunatic" discredits his very personal appraisal of the situation, for it causes one to wonder why he needed to adopt such an emotionally defensive perspective. By outlandishly equating the Palestinians with the Nazis and the North Vietnamese, Feldstein shows the extreme degree to which he attempts to debase the Palestinian enemy...
When Feldstein portrays the entire situation as a simply "bizarre" and almost "unreal" scene, in which children, mothers and fathers are forever in fear of their kibbutzes being the target of Palestinian bombing, one must adopt a more analytical and less emotionalist perspective, and ask why the Palestinians are firing. Indeed, when viewed within an historical-political scenario, the scene is certainly not of some bizarre nature where Israeli kibbutzniks just happened to be chosen as Palestinian targets...