Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means the only-or the primary-culprits in leaking extra-judicial information. The police, prosecutors, and lawyers-as sources of press information-actually deserve the largest part of the blame. The ABA readily acknowledges this and the committee's recommendations aim primarily at these groups. If local bars adopt the ABA guidelines (as now seems likely) they can expel lawyers who violate them. And the ABA also recommended that police and courts punish law enforcement or judicial officers who violate ABA's proposed restrictions...
Pearson warned that lack of action would eventually shatter the country. In this atmosphere of urgency, the premiers proceeded to adopt more than two-thirds of his proposals. They decided to work as a committee over the next few years to draw up changes in Canada's century-old constitution, including guarantees of linguistic and cultural equality for the French Canadian minority. Endorsing the broad reforms recommended by a Royal Commission, they vowed to break down Quebec's "ghetto complex" by setting up French as an official language along with English wherever large communities of French Canadians...
...Peace Corps mentality"- the desire of many young Catholics to serve God by good deeds in the world rather than through a life of prayer. Another problem is that the monastic orders, most of which date from the Middle Ages, have been slower than most other branches to adopt the reforming spirit of the Second Vatican Council-although they are beginning to do so. Last year the Trappists modified their centuries-old tradition of silence, now allow monks more freedom to speak under certain circumstances. A number of convents have removed the forbidding iron-bar grilles that once separated...
...policy was especially welcomed by the U.S., which has been pressing for foreign help to minimize the global impact of efforts to end its balance of payments deficit. Said Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming: "The Europeans have accepted the realities of the U.S. position and shown a willingness to adopt offsetting policies...
Congress to adopt a comprehensive student aid lems with the proposal. Under the terms suggested by the panel, it would be profitable for a wealthy student to borrow money, invest it, and buy out of the program immediately after graduation. Nevertheless, the easy availability of the loans is one of the principal attractions of the plan, and the committee has recommended that a student be required only to sign a form stating that he needs the money for his education...