Word: adoptive
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America's trade problem is both complex and simple. Politicians, business executives and economists discuss such arcane tactics as dumping or trademark protection, but the basic questions are far less bewildering. Will America adopt a defensive or an offensive strategy in the world economy? Will the U.S. build up seemingly strong walls to protect its domestic industries against an onslaught of goods from abroad? Or will it strive to continue as a leading economic power at the forefront of technology by pushing into new markets at home and overseas...
...popularity of the subject has increased in the last few years, and we're wondering why registration has dropped," Doty said. As a result of the popularity decline, Doty and his fellow teachers said they plan to try to persuade the Core office to adopt the course on the Nuclear Age into its curriculum...
...addition, Bok stated, Harvard's governing Corporation will soon adopt a change in its investment guidelines "that may lead to the sale of stock of firms selling substantial quantities of goods used in the administration of apartheid...
...might represent the last gasp of a class (European, intellectual, well-to-do) that is being smothered by the rise of the masses. None of the possible interpretations seems as interesting as the novel's deceptively plain but beguiling language. The wise reader of Mr. Palomar might best adopt a strategy that the hero formulates but fails to follow: "Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: stick to what...
...years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...