Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though most programs try to postpone extended treatment of the seamy side of sex-VD, abortion, perversion-until a positive image has been established in the youngster's mind. Girls tend to worry about the risk of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth ("Can't we just adopt a baby?" they often...
This was the broad planning calculus for Cambridge. But for the DPW, the issues were somewhat different. Since the Cambridge Planning Board's endorsement of the Brookline-Elm St. route, the DPW had slowly moved to adopt it as its own. Independent developments had made a Lee St. route much more difficult. And compared with the other possibilities further to the East, Brookline-Elm appeared to be superior in terms of locations and traffic service. In 1962, consultants to the department recommended Brookline-Elm, and everyone in the city knew that the DPW agreed with the recommendation...
...some costs for the U.S., even if Nasser backed down. For the Egyptian leader's indictment of the West would lose this country some good-will in the Middle East, and would force the U.S.'s best friends -- King Hussein of Jordan and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia -- to adopt a less friendly stance, at least in public...
...average of four incidents a day. "The Syrians are not good pupils," said Israel's army chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin. "They do not learn from their mistakes." Unless the terrorism stopped immediately, warned Premier Levi Eshkol at the beginning of last week, "we may have to adopt measures no less drastic than those of April...
Even the Houses which did not break off and become autonomous would be forced by the others to adopt the rules that the majority of each House seems to want. If just Lowell, for example, decided to adopt Katz's plan, the others, to keep up the popularity of their Houses, would have to go along. Perhaps it doesn't sound democratic, but apparently the democratic means, as Katz points out in the letter, don't work...