Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other business, the council voted, 7-2, to adopt a resolution submitted by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci endorsing the administration of school superintendent Alflorence Cheatham and congratulating him for not resigning
...your issue of Sept. 9, your book review of Carl Solberg's Riding High gives new currency to the false statement that Truman said that "the whole world should adopt the American system." Truman never said anything of the sort. That is a fabrication by Noam Chomsky in his book American Power and the New Mandarins...
Imperial Rome lasted nearly 500 years. The British Empire flourished for more than a hundred. In 1947 Harry Truman urged that "the whole world should adopt the American system." His country spent something like a trillion dollars one way or another to encourage just that. But the American century, so boldly sought, lasted only a decade and a half. That period, moreover, will go down in history not as a triumph but as the time of a thoroughly ambiguous enterprise known as the cold...
When Congress passed legislation recommending that the states adopt a 55 m.p.h. speed limit as a means of curbing gasoline consumption, most observers predicted an additional boon - a decrease in traffic fatalities. Sure enough, last month when the National Safety Council released highway-death-toll figures for the first six months in 1974, deaths were down a heartening 23% from the same period in 1973. While noting that the energy crisis had decreased the number of cars on the road, the council still gave credit for the downturn to the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, calling it a "major contributing factor...
...military is pressuring Imru's government to adopt a new constitution that would make official Selassie's loss of power. Drafted by a reform-minded committee of 30 military-approved civilians, the constitution provides for a bicameral Parliament that will be vested with most of the Emperor's powers. The Prime Minister will be chosen by the Parliament, as will judges and Cabinet members. The Emperor's Imperial Court will be replaced by an independent judiciary and Supreme Court, whose Chief Justice will be elected for life by the Parliament. The Emperor will also lose...