Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awarded custody to Stern, permitted Elizabeth Stern to adopt the baby on the spot and--keeping things tidy--denied the court-appointed guardian's recommendation that the natural mother retain some parental rights. A deal, Sorkow's ruling reminded those who may have forgotten the schoolyard-taunt of a kid who has taken advantage of another, is a deal...
Sorkow thought it less worthy of note that the Sterns misrepresented themselves to Whitehead. The couple appealed to Whitehead's sympathy by telling her they were unable to have or adopt a child. The contract Whitehead signed stated that Elizabeth Stern was infertile...
Elizabeth Stern diagnosed herself as having a mild case of multiple sclerosis. But the couple did not have a specialist confirm the diagnosis until late 1986, did not inquire whether the disease affected her ability to bear a healthy child, and did not seek to adopt a child. William Stern wanted a genetic link. Yet if Sorkow is to be believed, these facts reveal nothing about the Sterns' fitness to be parents...
Indeed, the power struggle in Peking is largely a dispute over how to strike a balance between foreign practices and Chinese ways. While the conservatives are willing to adopt Western ideas, they do not want the borrowing to go too far. Deng's rural reforms were quite acceptable to the aging revolutionaries who had supported the leader since he took power in 1977, but his latest moves have caused them to back away. Conservatives worried that the party's authority was threatened by Deng's 1984 drive to extend free enterprise to China's cities and by public discussion...
...City Council vote last night laid the groundwork for Cambridge to adopt a sister city in El Salvador to counteract the damage that they say the American military has done in the Central American country...