Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They argued that educational institutions had to stay out of the fray in situations like this and let political matters take their own course. They were even exceedingly slow to adopt the Sullivan Principles, which prodded companies to take moderate actions to reduce egregious discrimination against Africans and black employees...
...surely these governments alone cannot be the cause of their economic collapse. Yet these governments are being blamed, while the currency traders, foreign capitalists and hot-money stock-market raiders are being praised for their efforts to discipline these governments and force them to change their ways--i.e., adopt the ways of Western governments and business...
...perfects its technique and other clinics adopt it, the costs are expected to drop, putting gender choice within reach of hundreds of thousands of prospective parents. And considering that men were once willing to apply tourniquets to their testicles, it's hard to imagine that it won't become hugely popular...
...University was slow to pull its own investments out of companies doing business in South Africa, insisting that through its proxy votes, it could more effectively fight apartheid than by purging stocks from its portfolio. But after a decade of protests, Harvard did adopt a policy of selective divestment, and by the end of the '80s was almost completely out of South Africa...
While the main goals of the Anderson petition have now been achieved, city council members did not adopt its recommendations regarding affordable housing policies...