Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task force, comprised of members from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporter's Alliance and the Undergraduate Council, plans to begin campus-wide education efforts about the issue this year. It will also contact Faculty within the next few weeks to urge them to adopt the change if the issue is brought to them by the deans...
...South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading the Chinese culture to distant land. Only later on, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, [did] the feudal rulers adopt [...] a policy of seclusion, which hampered China's progress and its exchanges with the outside world. After the Opium War, generation after generation of enlightened Chinese people have spared no efforts in learning from Western countries advanced science and cultural achievements in combination with China's realities and pushing...
...full exercise of people's rights to govern the country and manage social affairs. Culturally, we will work hard to develop a scientific socialist culture for the people, a culture that is geared to the needs of modernization, of the nation, of the world and of the future, adopt a strategy of rejuvenating China through science and education and strive to raise the political and moral standards, as well as the scientific and cultural level, of the entire nation. In a word, it is to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and culturally advanced modern China...
With all the competing interests Clinton had to take into account, his proposal is probably as politically astute is it could be. "It buys off corporate opposition up front by throwing subsidies at companies to adopt 'green' energy practices," observes Jerry Taylor, director of natural-resources studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington research organization. And while he would have preferred a stronger plan, the EDF's Oppenheimer likes the fact that Clinton wants immediate tax credits for energy efficiency...
...reform program the school administration did adopt system-wide is an Afrocentric self-help regimen marketed by the Efficacy Institute of Lexington, Mass., and embraced by other black-majority school districts. Through a sequence of four-day, $10,500 group training seminars for teachers and staff, the institute hopes to spark school districts to extract better performance from both teachers and students by promoting a greater belief in the power of individuals to succeed no matter what their personal circumstances...