Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, jowls aquiver with indignation, he roared at a union convention in Washington: "We can't buy either party. If we are looking around for a party to adopt or control, we don't want the Democratic Party, because they can't deliver!" President Johnson was un moved. "As far as I have been aware," he said laconically, "labor has always been independent, and should...
...done." He could have stayed in bed. Re-elected last year on a "progress" platform that pledged a state income tax to improve sadly in adequate schools, hospitals, highways and welfare programs, Democrat Hughes was confident that the state's first Democratic legislature in half a century would adopt the tax he needed...
...Radcliffe Library will adopt an open reserve system, checkers at the doors, and longer hours next Fall, when construction of the Hilles library is completed, Ruth K. Porritt, librarian, announced yesterday. The library is scheduled to move to the new building on Garden St. this August...
...also an adviser on China to the Defense and State departments-that U.S. military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw." China's leaders, he told the committee, are well aware that a U.S. nuclear attack would devastate their "modernized sector" and are determined not to provoke...
...notion based on the same fear of the diabolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow. Not only does the strategy require the existence of a local political situation favorable to its success. It requires the existence of a self-reliant, capable, indigenous leadership willing to adopt and adapt it to local condition...