Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they say, Loeb Director Robert H. Chapman is in an impossible position. Answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, he has been forced to walk a tight-rope all year. As a result, he has had to adopt a conciliatory, rather than positive, attitude. Students were not happy to see spats between Chapman and eminent visitors Eric Bentley and Lillian Hellman, and they fear that other New York theatre personalities may now hesitate to come here...
...principle of competitive emulation teaches that when two competitors engage in protracted struggle each tends to adopt the other's most successful "tactics" (to use the President's word). And to the extent that the struggle permeates their domestic situations, they also tend to adopt similar "institutions...
...general method that reform of paramilitary operations ought to adopt is certainly obvious enough. Before the CIA becomes thoroughly ensconced in its splendid new quarters on the Virginia side of the river, it will have to learn that its only job is to do research. A body already exists to fulfill the policy-making function of the British Special Operations Executive; it is of course the National Security Council, the only Executive organ lofty enough to be entrusted with operations planning. The intelligence decisions of the time are far too important to be left to the secret agents...
...Under these conditions, France does not see how she can adopt any other attitude toward the United-or Disunited-Nations than that of the greatest reserve . . . She does not wish to contribute her men or her money to any present or eventual [military] undertaking of this organization-or disorganization...
...Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would be compared to that of the U.S.S.R. in Hungary. Democratic Presidents in Latin America like [Adolfo] López Mateos of Mexico or Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela would be forced to adopt an extreme position in order to prevent revolution in their own countries...