Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political evolution of Eastern Europe has a military as well as an economic aspect. Gorbachev and his advisers have said they are willing to adopt what they call "nonoffensive" defenses. The West's task is to get the U.S.S.R. to apply that concept in a way that makes the Soviet army not only less of a bully toward Western Europe but also less of a thug in Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact may be the first alliance in history whose sole operational purpose has been to invade its own member states. Only when the Iron Curtain is lifted will...
...birth control. That authoritative teaching left Roman Catholic couples with only two ways to limit the size of their families: 1) use the morally acceptable rhythm method, which was then so unreliable as to justify the sobriquet "Roman roulette"; or 2) follow their consciences rather than papal counsel and adopt such forbidden means of contraception as diaphragms, condoms or the Pill -- which millions...
...best for player and prognosticator alike to adopt Peterson's one-day-at-a-time approach. The early part of Harvard's schedule is not difficult. The Crimson plays its first two Ivy games (Columbia on September 17 and Cornell on October 8) at home...
...combat lethal roads, official harassment and wandering bandits, drivers adopt aggressive attitudes, complete with tattoos, earrings and vile vocabularies. They cannot quite disguise the soft hearts beneath their flamboyant T shirts. When an East German family gets stranded on the road in Yugoslavia, it is hauled back home gratis. As the journey concludes, a trucker wistfully remarks, "I was born in the wrong century. I should have sailed with Sir Francis Drake." Perhaps he should have, with Hutchison along to take notes. The world would then know a lot more today about what went on in the 1500s...
...spokesman for Bennnett said that it would bebetter to help colleges enforce their ownanti-drug policies than for the federal governmentto become involved. The Education Department iscurrently working with officials from about 20universities to establish voluntary standards theycould adopt to reduce drug abuse on campus, hesaid...