Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal Weil eventually put together presented "Fair Share" and a $1000 per person Tobin scheme as two plans which McGovern might adopt if he became President, but committed him to neither...
...encourage the most "meritorious" applicants and students, the chairmen warned that such students might be lured away to Yale or Berkeley, where merit scholarships still rule graduate student financing. In short, they warned that the quality of graduate education was at stake. Nonetheless, department chairmen agreed unanimously to adopt the Kraus plan on a trial basis only for next year...
Harvard must adopt a deliberate equal admissions policy which entails devoting equal personal and financial resources to recruiting, scholarships, and personal services for men and women as well as assuring that qualified men and women teachers and workers will be hired in equal numbers. The Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices should be combined to make the pursuit of this goal feasible...
...money would go to a school. Berston's mother, from whom his father was divorced in 1946, was effectively excluded from inheriting the trust. But Berston, now 29, single and living in Minnesota, wanted to provide for her. In an inspired, topsy turvy legal gambit, he moved to adopt his mother, who is 53. A trial judge denied his petition apparently because the adoption was merely designed to frustrate the father's will. But the Minne sota Supreme Court, by a 5-2 vote, held that state law "so unequivocally authorizes . . . the adoption of 'an adult...
...merely pointing out the symptoms of the disease and stating that if they do not somehow disappear we will all go the way of Gibbon's Rome. He is exhorting various interests which have a vast influence on the nation's mores to adopt a more sober tone instead of exacerbating an already overheated situation. The particular value of the new conservative writers is that they themselves adopt a moderate and judicial tone of discussion (which Kristol, it must be added, sometimes violates) compared to the daily hysterics of New Left ideologues. Their goal is more often a clarification...