Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Passed by a 69-18 margin, the proposal, requested that the Trustees implement a policy of open housing, prohibiting the discriminatory selection practices of fraternities...
...platform, lent more than a little credence to speculation that the President might be contemplating a change in Viet Nam policy-or else had taken the opportunity to disarm critics by giving the impression that he might. Westmoreland, the chief instrument of past policy, could hardly be expected to implement any broad changes...
...tier system, like the foundering Gold Pool, would be used as merely a short-term solution to the gold drain. Before long the central bankers hope to implement the idea of special drawing rights that could be used as reserves along with gold and dollars. The S.D.R.s would be certificates representing members' credits in the International Monetary Fund. They would make it less necessary for other governments to hold so many dollars in reserve-and less burdensome for the U.S. to redeem these dollars with gold...
...obviously difficult to make the first steps toward industrialization or implement more efficient agricultural techniques if a majority of the adult population can not read. "We just can not afford to write off the present generation," says Tanzania's President Nvrere, himself a teacher before he became a politician. "Those who are 15 today [compulsory schooling ends at 15] may still be members of the working population in the year 2000. Furthermore, the decisions affecting the future of the country-- its social structure, economy and politics--are not taken by children, whether they have gone to school...
...abysmal failure to implement the "Truth in Negotiations Law" causes the greatest runoff in defense funds. From minimal spot-checking over a ten-year period, the GAO has turned up some $130 million in overcharges to the government. Senator Proxmire attributes "billions of dollars" to this failure. The absence of many Defense cost records and the shoddiness of others makes it impossible to calculate the exact amount of wastage, but every indication points toward a multi-billion dollar...