Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...championed a national ban on cow slaughter, campaigned for atom bombs for India and a harder line with Moslem Pakistan and Communist China. Jana Sangh and Swatantra share one goal that may be very beneficial for India: they want to dismantle the country's stifling socialistic bureaucracy and adopt a form of free enterprise that would attract needed foreign investment. In a limited way, Swatantra will get a chance, since it will head a coalition government in the eastern state of Orissa...
...that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some forms of mental retardation, deafness, muscular dystrophy and hemophilia-like bleeding disorders. The counselor's advice to parents with one child suffering from these has to be: if you want more children, adopt them...
Cambridge officials are ambivalent about the new emphasis that the Joint Center is apparently preparing to adopt. On the other hand, they recognize that the Center could help them cope with Cambridge's problems, and they resent what they consider the Center's neglect of Cambridge. "Most of those professors know their way around Washington better than they do around Cambridge," a Cambridge official declared recently. "You could plop them down four blocks from Central Square and they'd never find their way home...
...letter, according to one of the signers, will adopt a "more strident tone" than any of the students' two previous letters. They wrote one to Johnson on Dec. 31, covered on the front page of the New York Times, and another to Rusk on Jan. 30, a day before their meeting at the State Department...
...take a course solely for the high grade, under the F-plan serious students will be discouraged from taking a course they are seriously interested in. Happily, such students may choose to audit the course rather than take it for a grade. To be sure, if most teachers adopt the F-plan, there will not be many non-F-plan courses with which to fill up a required schedule. But then all students will be in a similar situation, and hence will not be discouraged from taking a course because of the failing grade...