Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when some neighborhood groups demanded that the library corporation split the complex in half, or take its business elsewhere, many of the corporation directors, tired of being pestered by the neighborhood gnats and pleased to see that some people were still clamoring to get the complex, became anxious to adopt the latter suggestion...
...have been largely personal. He had published no less on this topic than on China or Vietnam, yet he was a dominant force in Asian affairs. Perhaps because political pressures before October 1973 made the type of policy he would have liked to pursue in the Mideast impossible to adopt, perhaps because as a Jew he believed Arab nations would not trust his intentions, or perhaps simply because he realized that the possibility of any sort of serious settlement in the area was a long way off, Kissinger refrained both from participating in, and commenting on, the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...Beame need do is adopt the Khmer solution. That is, order every man, woman and child out of the city...
...first reason may be more important. The war is over in Vietnam, but we believe that Americans--whether they adopt Vietnamese children, remember their own experience of Vietnam, or think about the moral issues raised by their country's experience there--still have to make their peace...
Before the large-scale adoption of Vietnamese children, most overseas adoptions came from Korea. Like Vietnam's, Williams says, Korea's traditional society will not fully recover from its war for generations. "Korea cannot support the children," Lazare says. "It's better for the child and for the country that they are adopted." But Lazare says that Vietnam has always been "riskier" for adoptive American parents than Korea. "The ages are guess-work and it is not the same as getting a healthy infant," she says. The Vietnamese children American families adopt are either orphaned or abandoned (in Vietnam...