Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of this system has been to reduce the importance of dormitory assignments. If Harvard were to adopt such a plan, the differences between the Houses would probably seem as small as the differences between the Yard dorms...
However, the motion to adopt an "early semester" calendar in Fall 1974 will be the first subject taken up by the Faculty in its next meeting on May 15. The schedule proposal was at the bottom of Tuesday's agenda and was the only item not discussed...
Scali managed to sidestep a veto. The Security Council voted 11-0, with the U.S. and three other nations abstaining, to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel's raids on Lebanon and also deplored "all recent acts of violence"-a phrase that could be interpreted to include Arab terrorism. The compromise did not please the Arabs. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat declared that "if the situation in the Middle East defies any solution today it is because of United States support for Israel...
...engaged in pressing secular problems. They administer the country's Roman Catholic medical network, with its 400 small hospitals and 600 dispensaries. They run India's only social sciences institute. But perhaps the most engaging of the Indian Jesuits are the handful who have chosen to adopt the life-styles and manner of Hindu sanyasi−holy men−while continuing their work as Roman Catholic priests. Two such Jesuits are Swami Amalananda and Swami Animananda, who work in remote, poor villages in the state of Mysore. The 70-year-old Animananda, whose chosen name means "devotee...
What evidence is there that the ACSR will adopt an increasingly more important and progressive role? To start, optimists may point to the committee's votes on Caterpillar Tractor and Phillips Petroleum proxies. The ACSR was unanimous in endorsing a request for Caterpillar's disclosure of data regarding South African operations, and in opposing Phillips's exploration for oil off Namibia's coast...