Word: adopts
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...Many highly profitable corporations have been able to do just that. Still, most of the reformers consider this a cop-out that would hinder enactment of fundamental changes. As Bradley told Packwood's committee: "If we reform the system, we won't need a minimum tax." To adopt one, he claimed, would be "an admission of failure." The minimum tax, however, has won general approval in the Senate, which passed a nonbinding resolution endorsing the principle, and has some 55 sponsors in the House. The Administration may propose such...
...profession's version of a snake-oil salesman. In his new book The Share Economy (Harvard; $15), Weitzman claims to have found a cure-all that will end both unemployment and inflation. The trick, he says, is for U.S. industry to abandon the practice of paying fixed wages and adopt a scheme that would compensate workers in relation to their employers' revenues or profits...
...problems and much of the dizziness of the script. When the narrative actually sets off. Doc has abandoned touring and Blackie to seek greater song-writing profits. But stuck in considerable debt and creatively bankrupt--he has unwittingly sold the rights to his songs--Doc must adopt a tough counter-strategy against the unsavory tactics of Nashville music manager Rodeo Rocky (Richard Sarafian). After an implausibly easy arson job, he takes off to Austin to form his own record label and write songs under other people's names...
United, which netted $258.9 million last year, has recently flown into its own patches of turbulence. The airline last week reported a $3.2 million < first-quarter loss, largely because of airfare wars. In addition, its 4,900 pilots, angered by the company's plan to adopt a two-tier wage scale that would lower the pay of new flight officers, voted to strike just after midnight...
...techno-whizbang pop culture is ultimately depressing. White Noise swirls with the sounds of contemporary life--televisions, radios, appliances, sirens. The Babylon inhabited by DeLillo's samaritans is awash in information, sensation, and objects of diversion but everyone's so numb they don't mind, and they adopt a fusty capitalist attitude respecting their decadence. As one character earnestly asserts. "It makes you proud to be an American: we still lead the world in stimuli...