Word: adopters
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Although Rainwater has sent copies of his proposal to several federal officials, including the department of Health, Education and Welfare, he said yesterday he does not expect Congress to adopt policies that incorporate his proposal...
...story that appeared Tuesday, "the b.u. exposure," a B.U. student newspaper, claimed that Silber had urged the B.U. board of trustees to adopt a policy of charging Law and Medical students large sums of money in order to be accepted...
...agenda is simply not consistent with his previous social analysis. Harrington proposes that the United States and other advanced nations adopt, as "very modest first steps," the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recommendations--price stabilization for important Third World commodities, increased Western aid to the Third World, a world tariff structure to encourage Third World industrialization, and a rescheduling of Third World debt payments. Throughout the book, however, the thrust of Harrington's argument has been that these very UNCTAD demands are not enough, because as long as they remain within the existing world structure of inequity...
Winter golf also raises the dilemma of how the caddie is best to convey one's clubs. The most satisfactory solution to my mind would be to adopt the method illustrated by the caddies at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, Hong Kong. By dangling both bags on a bamboo pole across his shoulders, the caddie could avoid setting the bags down in the snow for each club selection without undue physical strain...
Okun's plan was seriously discussed by the Carter Administration. At first, Charles Schultze, chief presidential economic adviser, wanted to adopt it. But then the Business Roundtable, which is composed of corporate chief executives, denounced it as unworkable, and labor leaders argued that it placed unfair restraint on collective bargaining. Thomas G. Moore, a senior fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institute, dismisses both TIP plans as "gimmicks." Says he: "They are just a hidden form of wage and price controls, pure and simple." Barry Bosworth, President Carter's chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, complains that...