Word: adopts
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...acre annually to be excessive; below that, the land can renew itself fairly well. Yet Illinois farms are eroding at an average of 6.72 tons, and losses are also high in parts of Iowa, Tennessee and Missouri. Farmers, often with federal prodding and financial help, have begun to adopt better conservation techniques...
...should adopt an energy program to slash its own oil consumption and so to alleviate upward pressure on petroleum prices in world-markets, which in turn compels developing countries to chose nuclear power. Ideally such an American program should include the decontrol of oil and gas prices (accompanied by tax relief for the hardest-hit consumers), the development of mass transit, and the adoption of solar power and conservation measures, which a group at the Business School recently said could cut the nation's energy consumption by 30 to 40 per cent...
...faculty must adopt both proposals before the procedures are instituted
Eckstein said Carter's moves are important because the "U.S. should adopt policies to affect the goals of the Soviet Union...
Finally, Khomeini has blown apart the comfortable myth that as the Third World industrializes, it will adopt Western values, and the success of his revolution ought to force the U.S. to look for ways to foster material prosperity in Third World countries without alienating their cultures. Says Richard Bulliet, a Columbia University historian who specializes in the Middle East: "We have to realize that there are other ways of looking at the future than regarding us as being the future. It is possible that the world is not going to be homogenized along American-European lines...