Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cadillac will lose its tail fins after 16 years, adopt the sleek, slablike sides that have become so popular in the industry. G.M.'s Corvair will retain its rear engine but adopt more conventional styling and have a larger body. Plymouth will grow from a 116-in. to a 119-in. wheelbase and become more interchangeable with the 119-in. Dodge. In addition to fielding a sports car, American Motors will introduce a new, longer (by 10 in.) Ambassador and a restyled Classic. Mercury will have a handsome new slab-sided car completely different in appearance from the Ford...
Giles Constable, Master of North House, said that it will be up at the next meeting of the Radcliffe Masters. There is a possibility that Radcliffe will adopt Harvard's ruling on the machines...
...decision whether or not to adopt such a policy in the Radcliffe Houses will have to be made by Mrs. Bunting, Master Thimann, Giles Constable, Master of North House, and Samuel E. Thorne, Master of South House...
...posts, Marton took over Sljeme in 1951 when he was 29. He got the job because of his credentials as a trusted Communist, had no formal business training. But he made Sljeme prosper because of his skill as a manager, his ability to outwit competitors and his readiness to adopt the modern techniques and philosophy of capitalism. This was possible because, though all major Yugoslav industry is owned by the state, the state itself does not run businesses. Workers' councils that operate somewhat like boards of directors are elected by the workers, hire a managing director and hold...
Another stumbling block is the strength of the author's emotions. For all his felicities of phrase, his small ironies and pointed understatements, one feels that Cheever is not always in control of his own voice. Some of his mannerisms--a tendency to adopt a coyly melodramatic tone, for example--eventually become obtrusive. When he attempts satire, the element of fantasy that distinguishes his funniest passages becomes mere grotesqueness. On the other hand, his excesses of sentimentality are almost embarrassing; even readers who do not mind his beginning the novel on a snowy Christmas Eve may object to his ending...