Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before we agree to adopt it, however, we should be aware of two points. The critics have probably exaggerated the extent both of the "career monopoly" and of the pressures toward academicism...
From a rather higher altitude, Turner Catledge has sought to adopt the same approach. "I don't even consider myself much of an executive, in the Harvard Business School sense," he said last week as he began his new duties. "In my job, you have to be a combination of coach and cheerleader...
...consumer's benefit, and revitalize a business that has been steadily losing ground to the savings and loan associations and the credit unions. Compared with the richer, older banks, many of the lean and aggressive newcomers stay open longer hours, charge less for loans and checking accounts, and adopt more aggressive ways of attracting money...
...demean our own character when we try to adopt this kind of proposal," cried Ev. "I believe we have demeaned ourselves enough, all over one fallen angel...
...bard really was." At least I think their interpretation follows certain simple but "classic" lines: Euripides mocks the old religious motifs that Aeschylus so deeply felt, ergo he was an atheist rebelling against the pious establishment. The Loeb production seems to follow this interpretation or, shall I say, to adopt it suddenly and without warning near the end of the play when the speech of the Dioscuroi and one reference to prayer are played for laughs. They probably should be, to a certain extent, but the extent bothers me, and I doubt they meant to provoke as much mirth...