Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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April 30 faculty members of many Greater Boston universities gathered in Lowell Lecture Hall to adopt a reply to Secretary of State Rusk. The reply which was adopted attacks U.S. policy as immoral and as an outrage to the conscience of the world...
Bernays attended a meeting of friends and legislators to adopt legal strategy in the battle. They decided to file three bills to foll the project, each slightly weaker than the one preceeding...
Harvard is unlikely to adopt a stronger policy on the military draft. Dean Monro said recently that he thought the University adequately protected students on leaves of absence, and that taking a harder line would raise serious questions of equity...
...police understandably grew tired of being berated, and insisted that the board adopt a more judicial approach. The board found that most of the complaints were so vague that only rarely could it put together a convincing case against a policeman; in the 515 cases that have come before it, the board has recommended only 18 reprimands or suspensions. And generally the punishment recommended by the board was less severe than that which the police department ordinarily metes out under its own disciplinary system...
Christian Viewpoint. New medical knowledge has led some courts to adopt a stand that the Roman Catholic Church has held for years-that a child is a distinct person with rights of his own as soon as he is conceived. Doctors have now proved even beyond a lawyer's doubts that the fetus is most susceptible to lasting defects from injuries and drugs during the first three months after conception. As a result, juries are now far more able to assess responsibility and fix damages...