Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect him to adopt my position on this. He has to be free to strike out in new directions," Epps says...
...control. For the moment, though, Democrats believe they have hit a bull?s-eye. Not only did they succeed in getting the Republican majority to do a complete about-face on the question of mandatory background checks for gun-show sales, but they also pressed the Senate to adopt a measure against juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons and a ban on the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. Even better, from their viewpoint, the Republican mandatory-check system the Senate approved Friday by a one-vote margin contains enough loopholes to keep the Democrats talking all weekend long...
SWITCH TO A "DIET COLA." More formally, adopt a formula for cost of living allowances that increases pensions less rapidly than the consumer price index rises. Inflation has subsided so drastically as to drain the urgency from this proposal. Also, because of changes in the way it is calculated, the CPI no longer overstates inflation by a bit more than one percentage point, as a government panel of economists thought it did two or three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more...
Galluccio said the council will continue to pressure the University to adopt a living wage...
...just wage. Harvard has an opportunity to be at the labor forefront as a private institution that cares about the living standards of its workers," said Daniel R. Morgan '99, a member of Harvard's Living Wage Campaign. Galluccio said the council will continue to pressure the University to adopt a living wage...