Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realistic plan to cut the budget deficit. That will take some doing. When a perplexed Pharaoh awoke from his dream-filled sleep, Joseph advised the ruler to store food from coming harvests against the time of want. At the moment, no Joseph is available to persuade Washington to adopt frugal habits, even when the fat years are in danger of turning to lean ones...
...even less. In fact, these weapons are good for nothing except as bargaining leverage to remove similar Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. Thus the current furor is surprising only in that it took so long, and so much pressure from the left, for a West German Chancellor to adopt Kohl's present position...
...months since George Bush's Inauguration, the world has been waiting to discover what attitude the new U.S. Administration would adopt toward the extraordinary events in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have continued their odysseys through world capitals, proclaiming the promise of perestroika and the end of ideological conflict. All the while, the White House has turned away questions -- whether from allies, Soviets or the American press -- with the explanation that a sweeping policy review was under...
...A.J.A. is hardly a terrorist organization, and the Israeli government has never classified it as such. Still, Ettinger and other officials see the cards as part of an attempt by the leaders of the uprising to adopt the trappings of an independent state. Foreign journalists counter that the cards have no political meaning and that they carry them only because their Israeli credentials are no longer credible. "Given the dangers my staff faces," says Reuters chief correspondent Paul Taylor, "I owe it to them to do what I can for their security...
...only five minutes before the scheduled start of an 11-day recess, Metzenbaum succeeded in wresting concessions that allowed senators to adopt the bill, 91-8, and leave town until...