Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longtime opponent of televised sex and violence. He questions the use of boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better juvenile programming. Her group opposes the coalition's crusade, she says, "because ACT believes that the Moral Majority is not out to improve children...
...last review taken place less than a year ago, accomplishing essentially nothing. No final declaration was agreed upon. Still, yet another review of the NPT might work if it included an agreement among some of the nations that supply nuclear materials to cool their avarice and adopt binding commercial practices. If those that did not sign the NPT were excluded from a tight nuclear market, they might enroll after all. Of course, they might become dangerously isolated too. Nonetheless, a review is certainly worth...
...move designed to encourage investment. They also voted a gradual reduction in the top corporate tax rate from 46% to 34%, very much in line with White House proposals. After the committee votes, one Administration official observed: "If they move toward us any closer, maybe we should just adopt their bill and declare victory...
...thirsty by the time they had come clear across North Carolina, then dry as two-year-old tobacco. "He wanted to get into the retail beer business, and this (five feet, if that, south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended it to get this large." "This large" means 500 guests a night at the motel and campgrounds, $20 million a year in receipts, 10-to 15,000 visitors a day through...
...increase training, strengthen teamwork and lengthen time horizons, American corporations are going to have to adopt management practices that dramatically cut turnover rates. If America wants a loyal labor force interested in raising productivity, layoffs have to become the last, rather than the first, resort when a firm is facing difficult economic times. Incentives will have to be structured to give the biggest economic prizes to those...