Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This session could have failed. The favored cliche when it opened was that after all it was convened only to adopt rules, approve budgets, organize. But, even without the more explosive matters which surged up later, these were testing tasks. Performing them, the General Assembly and its committees proved that they could be true world forums, free in debate and capable of decision. The world's will to feed the hungry, require in trusteeship a new sense of responsibility toward the weak, and in the new Economic and Social Council to see UNO take on real jobs for real...
Labor Boss Humphrey Mitchell takes pride in the past but worries about the future. His labor law is strictly a wartime measure; control of labor will soon revert to the nine provinces. Then it will be up to the provincial governments to adopt labor codes as effective as the wartime law-else the Dominion will return to the prewar system of diverse, impotent labor legislation...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...
Originally projected as a strictly Harvard-M.I.T. group, the members petitioned the national headquarters at an organizational meeting last week to be allowed to adopt the present title, backing up their decision by appointing several Cambridge residents to key positions on the veterans' affairs, local affairs, and membership committees...
Somehow the United Nations (and defeated countries who aspire to join later) must try to adopt realistic budgets, stabilize prices and wages, bring exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...