Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politicians should consider the impact of telling lies and making promises and the public should adopt what George Santayana called a "seasoned and incredulous mind," Bok argued...
Carnesale argued that any wholesale approach to reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons--"trying to do much about the consequences fo war"--is hopeless, and that the U.S. should adopt a piecemeal approach, taking individual weapons and trying to negotiate specific limitations or cutback treaties with the Soviet Union...
Until he suffered a stroke in 1972, Durante had as much vitality off-stage as he did on. Throughout his life, he would stay up late with show business cronies, joking around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt Hollywood vices, except for an occasional visit to the track. A devout Catholic, Durante lived in a modest eight-room house and worked tirelessly to raise money for the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research...
Chamorro said the campaign will not only alert Nicaraguans to the importance of participating in the political process, but will also encourage them to increase their productivity and to adopt more sanitary methods...
...loving parents." Brown favors a system under which the child lives with one parent, while the other has unlimited visitation rights and a full voice in decisions involving the child's rearing. On Jan. 1, California became the fourth state (after Oregon, Iowa and Wisconsin) to adopt a statute specifically providing the option of joint custody. Although the other 46 states have not enacted such laws, they do permit parents to ask for joint custody...