Word: adopters
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...result of the council's decision to adopt the petition's recommendations, all future construction between Harvard and Central Squares--with Dana Street and Bay Square as endpoints--must not exceed 45 feet, or four stories. The previous height limit was 120 feet...
...July 27 meeting, council members, with only Michael A. Sullivan dissenting, voted to adopt many of the recommendations in the Anderson Petition...
Last Thursday a Maryland appeals court upheld that ruling. Within a few weeks, Cornilous could be taken from the heartbroken Maryland woman with whom he has spent almost all of his short life and who wants to adopt him. The case has drawn national attention and fueled a bitter debate over the courts' strong bias in favor of "family preservation." Complains Bill Pierce, president of the National Council for Adoption: "It is not in Cornilous' best interest to be part of a social experiment to observe what might happen if Latrena Pixley is given one more chance...
...murder of her daughter, allowed Laura Blankman, a woman she had befriended at the public defender's office, to take custody of her son informally. Blankman, 28, now a police officer, has cared for and supported Cornilous since he was three months old. Last fall she decided to adopt him. Pixley, by then in a part-time detention facility, resisted--even though she had been unable to hold down a steady job, and had contributed a grand total of $200 to her son's care. In a case burdened by race--Pixley is black, Blankman white--the courts once again...
...same time lifting themselves out of Third World status. Their discipline and pragmatism will raise the standard of living for all Chinese; liberty as we know it will come later, and it can wait. Eventually the Chinese will throw off the old trappings of Stalinist and Maoist philosophy and adopt a culture that balances the privileges of liberty with the responsibilities thereof. Surely the next hundred years will be called "the Chinese Century." MARC NEVILLE Harrisburg...