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Among the upcoming projects is "Adopt a Public School," Kramer said, in which alumni volunteer to tutor students from local public schools...
...qualified and distinguished minority and women scholars. After conducting individual interviews with key faculty members, a campus-wide petition which garnered nearly 2500 signatures, and a carefully orchestrated letter-writing campaign, the Council--along with the many student groups who supported the effort--succeeded in getting the faculty to adopt changes in its recruitment methods and its administrative structure, summarized in the Verba Report...
...encourage farmers to devote too much land to a single crop have contributed to topsoil erosion. American agricultural policy should be changed to support "environmentally benign" farming methods, declared a study published last week by the National Academy of Sciences. The report urged the Government to encourage farmers to adopt such techniques as crop rotation and mechanized weeding, which the study found to be as productive as chemical methods...
...another sign of red-hot rivalry in the U.S. market, General Motors' Oldsmobile division said last week that it would adopt a novel guarantee: Oldsmobile will allow buyers of its new cars who are dissatisfied for any reason to return the autos within 30 days (or 1,500 miles) for full credit on a different Olds...
Alarmed by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Bulgaria launched its toughest drive ever to assimilate the Turks in late 1984, when it tried to force them to adopt Bulgarian customs. Last May violent protests erupted throughout the country; 60 Turks were killed and 200 others injured in clashes with Bulgarian security forces...