Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skills will establish their success in college. Increasing pressure for admission will force all students to focus on these skills, and make it increasingly difficult for the admission office to distinguish other qualifications. Thus, the danger is not merely that the tests become meaningless, but also that the applicants adopt the camouflage of acting like potential scholars. Growing uniformity of post-college plans pre-determines an increasing homogeneity in those who apply. And there is not a thing the College can do about it--so says the group which recognizes the problem. For those who have watched students in high...
...sell modern medicine to the 2,000,000 holdouts, said Madsen, physicians will have to adopt some of the curanderos' tricks. When they give vaccines to ward off an epidemic, they can say that they are injecting holy water. As for TB: "If the doctors just added donkey milk to the regular treatment, it might work out a lot better...
...Discounters, I wish to emphasize, are no longer mere order takers. They are becoming skilled merchandisers. They will rapidly expand and force conventional retailers to adopt their techniques." So saying, Maxwell Henry Gluck, 61, announced that his 279-link Grayson-Robinson apparel and camera-supply chain (expected 1961 sales: more than $75 million) will open 25 new discount outlets, from Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon...
...Where some of its rivals strain to make yearly model changes, Maytag changes its models only when it has a basic improvement to offer, advertises: "You don't buy a Maytag; you adopt it." The newest Maytag improvement, to be introduced next week: an electronic drying device for its budget-priced dryer...
Hand-Made Quality. Graves, like most writers, would profit if prevented by law from talking about his work. He has said, truthfully but with ill-seeming defensiveness: "The obstinate habit I have formed of refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...