Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preferring to stick to its own concept, the I.A.P.A. convention voted unanimously to condemn the "conspiracy directed by Cuba to subvert and lead to the seizure of the press of the Americas by the Communists.'' and asked the 21-nation Organization of American States "to adopt all corrective measures in its charter." The I.A.P.A. elected as its new president Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time...
...mothers die in childbirth; fathers live longer. Even if the father dies, social security payments enable a mother to keep her children with her. Furthermore, almost any average childless couple that wants a child can afford one. Result: more couples clamoring for babies than there are babies to adopt-and the highest rate of adoption of any nation in the world...
...attain the stature it requires in the American broadcasting industry, it must act quickly and decisively. To attain respectability, it must strictly enforce the principles and provisions of the Code of Good Practices. To gain acceptability, it must adopt a more realistic policy on such subjects as hard liquor advertising...
...much Radcliffe's action is circumscribed by Harvard's presence. Because the Harvard Faculty meets students in the Houses, Radcliffe must offer something similar to create Faculty-student relations. It cannot hope to venture into extensive programs of individually directed study as Sarah Lawrence did; it cannot adopt a highly student-centered curriculum; it can only cut Harvard's cloth to its own pattern...
...other half consists of Khrushchev's own statements, few of which are allowed to pass without some kind of rejoinder in the commentary. When unable to fight their adversary with established facts and statistics, the editors resort to snide remarks and rhetorical tricks. All else failing, they even adopt Lenin's old technique of refutation by quotation marks: e.g. Soviet women are "emancipated" (sneer...