Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sastroamidjojo recommended a middle course--that Indonesia "retain all the values inherent in our old culture" and also adopt "modern, efficient Western methods...
...ambassador also discussed the problems his country has faced since August 17, 1945 when it declared its independence. He outlined the conflict between those "who favor a return to the pre-colonial Indonesian culture" and those "who wish to adopt completely Western ideas and methods...
...remarkably broad-minded and scholarly Protestant minister could be found, it is doubtful whether the course would be a good idea. The same objection as that raised against the Chaplain would prevail it is contrary to the spirit of Harvard education to try to persuade the student to adopt any opinion or attitude, even so blameless an attitude as the religious one. He is, and should remain, free to work his own way to his own opinions...
Professors second willing to adopt the ideas to be suggested by the six-man committee headed by Provost Buck, but many teachers were not enthusiastic at the prospect...
...thus interest rates on new issues have to be raised), it will cost the nation more to finance the national debt (now $256 billion). It is as simple as that-and to the experts' eye as tunneled a view of a vast problem as a man could adopt...