Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both groups, however, direct their petitions to the Administration as requests. The more stubborn the University is in its refusal to change, the more radical each group becomes. Middle-of-the-road radicals adopt more extreme methods in an attempt to force University compliance, and the traditionalists turn to activist politics. Of course, everybody could just give up and go back to reading for tutorial. But for many students the personal stakes are too high...
...instead of five days, it was almost exactly one month before the petition was ready to be sent to the City Council. The City Council is allowed 20 days to consider the petition and then it must either adopt the resolution or place it on the ballot. Had the Commissioners performed their "ministerial function," the Council would have received the petition on Sept. 17. The Council and the Superior Court could have deliberated concurrently. As things stand now, the Council will take up the petition tonight for the first time...
What will the City Council do with the CNCV resolution? All the Council's own resolutions on Vietnam have been hawkish. Yet, "there is a possibility," McCarthy said Friday, "that the Council will adopt this [dove] statement ... anything can happen ... who knows?" That would be one sure way to keep the question off the ballot...
...likely, but was not certain last night, that the City will appeal the decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. In all probability, the City Council will not adopt the antiwar resolution, since only last week it sent a similar petition to a death in committee...
...cannot imagine what would constitute evidence as to the correctness of either view, and assume that persons will adopt one or the other (assuming that the subject even interests them) according to matters of personal taste and condition. The apocalyptic view has, of course, many supporters, most notably those of the newly emergent left who foresee a period of right wing oppression and excess, followed by the triumph of a new ideology. This will seem absurd to anyone who has never visited East Berlin. The more sanguine view will commend itself to those who would like to think...