Word: adopter
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...News of the suspected announcement was reported earlier this morning by the British tabloid The Sun. Citing a source close to the pair, the newspaper said disputes over the amount of time each devotes to their career and Madonna's wish to adopt another child reportedly destroyed the couple's attempts at reconciliation "like a sledgehammer...
...After similar ballot initiatives against pig and veal calf confinement in Florida and Arizona in 2002 and 2006 respectively, industry took the message. Smithfield Farms, one of the nation’s largest pig producers, announced it would phase out narrow gestation crates, and even Burger King promised to adopt more cage-free products...
...week ago, Congress gave its final assent to a deal that would allow American companies to sell nuclear technology to India, a nation with decades of hostile relations with its unstable nuclear-armed neighbor, Pakistan, and whose decision to test nuclear weapons in 1974 prompted Congress to adopt the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Since then, not only has India declined to join the NPT regime, it has refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and has continued to actively acquire nuclear material for its weapons program, despite a few recent concessions to stop unilateral nuclear tests and secure...
...usually reported five crimes a day, none were reported during a week-long trial run, prompting a local homeowners' association to raise $26,000 to help fund the operation for the rest of the year. And Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, urged police forces across the U.K. to adopt similar programs...
...Silvio Berlusconi in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We both agree that Europeans of course need to display a coherent course of action." President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, read on television a common statement from all 27 members pledging to adopt "all necessary measures to protect the stability of the financial system...