Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China's agricultural planners the commune system has obvious advantages: constantly under the eye of the commune's "activists," Chinese peasants will no longer be able to evade forced deliveries of crops to the government. More important, all of China's farmers can be forced to adopt improved techniques, such as deep plowing (as much as 3 ft.) and massive use of natural fertilizer, which have given Communist experimental farms per-acre rice yields twice as big as Japan's highest...
...automakers, who will make up their minds on the new process in the next two months, have privately indicated they will adopt it. If they do, they will be able to keep right up with changing consumer taste...
...Committee will be aimed at political action," Hamilton said, but he stressed that "it will in no way be partisan or sectarian. It is simply concerned with disarmament and with directly related issues, such as nuclear weapon testing and missile control. It in no way will adopt a political point of view or ideology...
...college survived the swamp; and last week, as Oberlin began full-dress celebration of its 125th birthday, visiting speakers had no trouble finding triumphs to praise in their complimentary preambles. In 1835 the college became one of the first in the U.S. to adopt a policy of admitting Negroes, and in 1841 became the first coeducational college to grant bachelors' degrees to women; its football team beat Ohio State as recently as 1921. An impressive number of educational observers call Oberlin the best coeducational college in the country, and there is much to support its right to top rank...
...Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said, however, that Republicans in the national government had not done enough in the present recession. He claimed that they had helped to bring it about, and had then taken inadequate measures to combat it. He predicted that the Democrats would adopt a more vigorous program if elected...