Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels' timing was impeccable. Najibullah, leader of the Moscow-backed regime in Afghanistan, was 15 minutes into his opening address at a National Assembly session called to adopt a new constitution giving him vast powers as President. Suddenly a rocket explosion shook the meeting hall. Three more blasts, each louder than the last, followed during the next few minutes. The beefy Najibullah, 41, known to his countrymen as "the Ox," never flinched as he outlined a policy of national reconciliation aimed at ending eight years of civil war. The rockets killed five people outside the hall, helping the rebels make...
...last twenty years, however, Intimacy and Sexuality studies have taken a huge leap forward. Even here at Harvard, which is notoriously slow to adopt new and progressive course materials, changes can be seen in the way people are dealing with their own personhood. Instead of frittering away their time with chess clubs as they may have in the 1950s, Harvard students of today are far more likely to spend their time in a sexuality discussion group, grappling with issues such as whether they prefer boys, girls, neither, or both...
...complied with the US laws governing registered foreign agents. Under these laws, the office must be staffed with American citizens and register its publications with the State Department. Secretary Schultz was not alone in this judgment; the American Civil Liberties Union and Congressman Barney Frank were also quick to adopt the PIO's cause. As for the UN mission, the US is bound by the 1947 "Headquarters Agreement" to allow UN personnel to stay in the US to carry out their duties. Since there has never been any formal charge of misconduct agaonst any PLO diplomat employed by either office...
...city may adopt the recommendations as part of a $920 million five-year plan to revamp Boston's municipal facilities and services. The city has allocated $90 million of this money to improving city parks and recreation facilities...
...Stocker, the couple who run the increasingly busy hospital out of their garden in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, have launched a $1.8 million expansion drive, funded in part by a popular adopt-a-hedgehog program. A portion of the money will be used for rooms to keep the patients separated. In a triumph of instinct over infirmity, recuperating male hedgehogs tend to treat the wards like honeymoon suites...