Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some said that they would not tell theirparents about the normal sleep habits that keepthem going--late to bed and late to rise--but willinstead adopt a faux sleep schedule to putparents' minds at ease...
...these things go too far, they can spin violently and dangerously out of control,? says TIME?s London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. The ?Contact Group? on former Yugoslavia -- the major EU governments, the U.S. and Russia -- meets in London Monday, and Hillenbrand says it is likely they will adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to force Belgrade to find a political solution to the demands of Kosovo?s Albanians for greater autonomy...
Although it places an unfair burden on a child, many parents unwittingly pressure students to carry out their own unfulfilled dreams. The mere fact that their children are attending Harvard may cause parents to feel jealous or want to adopt their children's experiences as their own. Perhaps they just want to visit, genuinely wanting to hear every detail of every day of college life...
...Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office of the Independent Counsel was trying to bully Monica Lewinsky's mother...
Reeves, an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, suggested that the government adopt "political policies to nudge us toward equality...