Word: adopts
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Mendelsohn explained that Jewish organizations are developing several projects which will focus on the plight of the refusniks. In one of the programs being considered, college campuses will "adopt" a college-age refusnik, admitting him or her to the college "in absentia" and establishing contact by writing letters and cards...
...might be desirable. Test pilots have described the F/A-18's elaborate air-to-ground radar as "grossly inaccurate." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer flew one himself to check out reports of serious problems; when he landed, the nose wheel failed to come down and he had to adopt emergency procedures. Some experts now believe that the very concept of such a multipurpose plane is wrong. They point out that in Viet Nam, Navy pilots who specialized in either dogfights or bombing missions outperformed Air Force pilots who tried to do both...
Like Boston, St. Louis was slapped with a school-desegregation suit in 1972. But unlike Boston, where Judge Garrity forced busing two years later, St. Louis was not compelled to adopt a mandatory busing plan for some 7,000 of its 59,000 students until 1980. By then, after a decade of white flight to the suburbs, the school system had become nearly 80% black, making it impossible to achieve racial balance in the classrooms. The St. Louis school board charged that the transfer and consolidation policies of suburban St. Louis County schools, 80% of whose students were white...
...Dartmouth men's tennis team because the first squad to adopt the black and orange racket (Princeton's colors), hoping to capitalize on its advantages in order to upend the probable Ivy League champs, Harvard or Princeton, with the Princetonian invention...
Harold Washington's victory challenges the strength of big-city political machines. The expectations will follow Washington into office, and may force him to adopt new strategies and policies. But his success stems in part from successfully adopting machine methods. It remains to be seen how Washington will react to the problems he will encounter, but whether he decides to redefine the rules of the political game or not, it will boil down to him using the old machine, or subverting is with his new populist...