Word: adopters
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According to Durand's office, the Community Preservation Act would enable communities across the state to choose by local ballot referendum to adopt a transfer tax of up to 1 percent on the purchase of real estate...
...Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate the pages of this newspaper and raise the ire of our nascent activist community, as the administrators appear slow to adopt the changes many feel are necessary to unite the disaffected factions of the campus. Despite our pleadings, we have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas...
...Marvin says he feels that the existing system of dividing talent could be improved if Harvard singing groups were to adopt a system like Yale's where a capella groups do not recruit first-year students, thereby leaving many to join the chorus...
...Jersey's decision to allow gay couples to adopt jointly [NATION, Dec. 29-Jan. 5] was called "another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda" by a spokesman for the Christian Coalition. The real agenda of proud adoptive papas Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio is to provide two-year-old Adam with a loving home--exactly what the dedicated couple have been doing as foster parents since Adam was a cocaine-addicted infant. What could be more Christian than that? How odd that in 1997 the religious right insists that the Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s...
Kids raised by committed gay couples compare favorably with their peers brought up in unbroken "straight" households. There are far more children looking for adoptive parents than people willing to adopt. Adoption officials have to deal with reality. Their options, when considering the best interests of each child, should not be limited by pie-in-the-sky delusions. WILLIAM C. STOSINE Iowa City...