Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real trouble with the industry, however, is in its distributing end. Dealers, owing to competition, have been forced to accept used cars at fairly high figures in selling new ones and in addition adopt part-payment systems. In consequence, purchasing expensive motor cars on a shoestring has become a commonplace habit throughout the country...
...past few years have clearly illustrated, to obtain this unity. It would seem that a wise policy calls for further expressions like that of Dr. Butler in order that a consensus of opinion may be reached. If the arguments for prohibition were strong enough to persuade a people to adopt it, they ought to be strong enough to persuade a nation to enforce it. But the prerequisite for convincing argument is an open forum. On the other hand, if the reasoning of Dr. Butler and his colleagues in-conviction can not be met, it is time to consider the adoption...
...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...
Which Shall It Be? A valiant essay at showing that a sentimental picture can be real and free from the sticky molasses variety of emotion. It deals with two elderly parents, facing the poorhouse as an alternative to letting a wealthy man adopt one of their seven children in return for a handsome indemnity. After finding it hard to decide which child they shall give up, they finally choose one. Then find they can't sell her into benign bondage after all. They get the rich man's check anyhow, as might be expected...
...Lasteyrie, Finance Minister, was in the Chamber of Deputies, attending to a routine finance bill. Only 80 deputies were present. The radicals proposed to adopt a Senate measure, proposing a 2,600,000,000 franc increase in pensions; the Finance Minister made an issue of the matter. The 80 voted. The attendants cast the proxies left by absentee members. When the vote was counted, the Government had lost by seven votes...