Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution's opponents also said decontrolling only vacant apartments was illegal. Councilor Barbara Ackermann said, "The law allows a city to adopt controls or not adopt them. The law does not allow a city to make up its own controls...
...victor in a vituperative campaign, he promptly cut the salary for that position from $50,000 to $35,000 and auctioned off to members three of the union's Cadillac limousines. Even as he planned to raise the incomes of U.M.W. members, he declined to adopt a princely life-style at their expense. Unlike most U.S. union chiefs, who rose through a series of headquarters jobs, Miller carried fresh in his mind the memories of rank-and-file travails. Just two years before, he had been down working in the mines, and on the eve of his ascent...
...prominent Memphis undertaker and Ford, too, is an undertaker, who also holds a master's degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University. For the campaign, the slender Ford put away his modish clothes in favor of pinstripes and softened his sometimes tough language. Which approach he will adopt in Washington is unknown...
...polls show that Americans, who are perhaps unjustly accused of being galvanized by nothing less than all-out war, are ready to adopt measures to conserve energy despite the costs involved. This willingness to accept some austerity may reveal a realism about the horrendous international problems created by extortionate oil prices. Or perhaps the dire drumbeat of warnings about diminishing reserves of raw materials has made the difference. Self-preservation, like charity, starts at home. Either way, it may well be that Americans will accept sacrifices, if only someone calls upon them for more than voluntary half measures. Just...
That there is no place for Sawhill on this team is no great surprise. Sawhill, 38, who took over FEA last May, pushed for stronger energy conservation measures than the Administration was willing to adopt; Morton tends to favor increasing U.S. energy production as an alternative way of reducing dependence on high-priced imported oil. Sawhill often bypassed bureaucratic channels to plug his programs directly in the White House and on Capitol Hill...