Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, the delegates from the 46 O.A.U. nations gave up their effort to find a way to halt the fighting. In fact, all they were able to do was demonstrate just how little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola, they could not even agree on a final communique. Concluded Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda: "Our failure to find a solution here confirms that the O.A.U. has no power to shape the destiny of Africa...
...humanists are unflaggingly optimistic. "We human beings are embarking on a wondrous adventure," they announce. "For the first time we realize that we own our own bodies."So long as "responsibility and mutuality" are respected, "we need to adopt the doctrine that actualizing pleasures are among the highest moral goods." Which is not quite what the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has in mind...
Members of the league, who adopt a Trotskyite line on the importance of proletarian origins for a revolutionary movement, were continually ignored by the more ardent MPLA supporters. The criticism that those supporters, many of whom are Africans, were responding to was the Maoist criticism, that the MPLA cannot be supported because it is backed by the Soviet Union and will be used as an agent of "social imperialism...
...testing to see whether those standards are met. The EPA requires testing during a car's pre-production stage, long before it begins rolling off assembly lines. California, on the other hand, tests production-line cars. That difference will soon end; within a month the Government will adopt the stiffer procedure, also requiring tests of actual production vehicles...
Rather than a crash program, the nation needs years of steady growth in production at somewhere around the 6% pace widely predicted for 1976 to come anywhere close to full employment. In order to achieve 6% economic expansion for several years, the Government may well have to adopt more generous money-supply, tax and spending policies. But even steady growth will not solve the problems of low skills and high turnover rates among would-be workers that now contribute so heavily to high unemployment. The nation also needs supplementary programs offering specific help to the people who now find...