Word: co-opt
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What Hollywood couldn't ignore it would try to co-opt. The year was 1967, the films Bonnie and Clyde (whose script was originally offered to Godard) and The Graduate (with its jazzy ransacking of the European film lexicon), and soon American directors had the auteur status that had been the exclusive province of foreigners. Then U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish...
Instead of allowing graduate students to unionize, we believe that universities should be more responsive to their legitimate grievances and co-opt some of their suggestions—including a set pay scale that is merit-based and no compulsory teaching for financial aid—to preempt calls for unionization. This solution will improve the plight of graduate students, which will improve sections independently, and allow universities to create a system that best serves the needs of undergraduate education...
...cull out those in the third category, colleges like Dartmouth and Stanford require applicants checking the Native American ethnicity box to submit either a copy of their tribal affiliation cards or a letter explaining non-tribal Native American ties. Harvard should co-opt this procedure as well. If the ultimate goal of the College’s admissions process is to create as diverse a student body as possible, the College shouldn’t risk accepting applicants who are neither affiliated with a tribe, nor familiar with Native American identity. Presumably, there are other, similarly qualified Native American applicants...
...problem has been that while many mainstream Muslims do not agree with the extremists, they have allowed them to co-opt the religion to further political causes. But no more. On March 11, a year after the Madrid bombings, something unprecedented and unexpected occurred—Muslims took the first major step in reclaiming their religion...
...there's any irony in the idea of the U.S. military paying salaries to insurgents as an incentive to get them to stop fighting, that doesn't appear to be stopping the military from considering a similar plan to co-opt Sadrists into security forces for the Shiite cities. Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey of the 1st Armored Division has proposed creating a Najaf Brigade to police the city, which would initially comprise 1,800 men drawn from militias loyal to local tribal chiefs and to the various Shiite political parties, and could include members of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia...