Word: adoptive
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...name change is] a final indication of a club that has turned its back on an attempt to adopt the big-tent philosophy," Garcia said...
...argument makes certain important points. Her warning against constantly portraying women as victims makes sense; if feminism focuses too much of its energy on issues such as date rape, it risks undermining healthy images of strong women in control of their own fates. Roiphe's argument that feminism should adopt a less accusatory stance towards men is advice that feminism would do well to heed...
...term didn't suggest city kids' spraying their aggressive colored tags all over subway cars and buildings. It wasn't bound up with the seizure and degradation of public space. It was, so to speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed up by mixing it with earth but then accelerated...
Proponents of the graduated tax say that Massachusetts should do away with its antequated income tax and adopt a tax system which is more progrssive...
...service is still in its infancy," Epps said. "We are in the phase of having organizational meetings to adopt operational rules...