Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Renewed attention to the perceived decline of interest in public service has prompted bar associations nationwide to adopt policies calling on their members to do pro bono work...
...says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks up a well-thumbed copy of Penthouse and sighs. There is no joy in their rituals, only emptiness and failure. Time to adopt a baby...
Sure enough, the movie presents a star-studded cast. Glenn Close and James Woods give endearing performances as Linda and Michael Spector, an infertile couple hoping to adopt a baby. Mary Stuart Masterson and Kevin Dillon play un-wed teens hoping to give their child an advantaged life through adoption...
That kind of shortsightedness, writ large, afflicts the entire globe. This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
...Hutchinson, also of the Registry, said that the state has been communicating with other states to encourage them to adopt similiar programs...