Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although BU has not yet decided to adopt the plan, the school's vice president of public affairs, Thomas D. Cashman, said he thought it would be a great way to generate money...
...agreement specified ways that profits could be taken out of the Soviet Union in hard currency and not just held in worthless rubles, joint ventures still face enormous difficulties. Ford Motor Co. pulled out of the consortium because, a spokesman said, it was unable to persuade "the Soviets to adopt new and innovative financial arrangements...
...point is that The Crimson didn't adopt its new pro-SDS line because of a duty to tell the truth regardless of fear of favor. It did so because a majority of the editors of the Crimson were incurable intellectual conformists, shifting with amazing sensitivity with what they sensed as the dominant currents...
...native of Denison in North Texas who edited the activist biweekly Texas Observer before running for office, is an unabashed advocate of consumers and small farmers. Says he: "There's room for more family farms, not less. You can make money on 40 acres." Hightower has encouraged farmers to adopt organic growing methods and to handle the processing of their products so they can keep more of the 75 cents of every food dollar that goes to middlemen. Hightower has also urged growers to diversify into potentially lucrative crops ranging from pinto beans to blueberries to wine grapes...
...disguise the growing impatience of many Jews outside Israel. They bridle at his stubborn resistance to any accommodation with the rebellious Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. Nor could the event paper over his fear of the increasingly assertive attempts to force him to adopt a more flexible stance. That activism strengthens Washington's effort to prod Israel into direct talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization...