Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Applying to the fund means lost economic sovereignty, which is no small matter for any country, especially a developing one in which colonialism is still a fresh memory. The fund's recommendations also mean pain for the poor and working class when governments adopt the fund's austere recommendations. Those usually include slashing budget deficits, which often means higher taxes and lower social spending, an end to subsidies on things like food and fuel, and privatization of inefficient state-owned industries, with the inevitable worker layoffs...
...precisely in the justice system do we find the arena of the bulk of death penalty discourse. Even those who have no moral opposition to the state's disposal of its worst criminals doubt whether society ought to adopt such a powerful and dangerous weapon. After all, death is permanent: if we put someone in jail for life, we can always free him if new evidence crops up; but if we execute him, we cannot undo any subsequently discovered injustice. However, this is a difference in degree, not in kind. We must consider it a societal tragedy if we wrongfully...
...from whom would she adopt? The anonymous genetic parents? The surrogate mother and her husband? At one point, surrogate mother Snell sought custody for herself, contending that she had contracted to deliver the child to a happily married couple, a description that no longer fit the battling Buzzancas. But she later withdrew her claim...
...imprint of Joe's and my genes on a small face; my thoughts dwelled on the imprint of a small hand on my cheek. By the time we had sat out the seemingly interminable three-month wait to see a fertility specialist, I was thinking I'd like to adopt. But with Joe not yet ready to consider that option, I proceeded deeper into the fertility labyrinth...
CAPE CANAVERAL: The Cold War may be over, but that doesn't mean those pesky ex-Soviets are about to adopt American traditions. While his American and Japanese comrades aboard the Space shuttle Columbia chowed down on seasonal fare of off-the-shelf processed turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie Thursday, Ukranian cosmonaut Leonid Kadenyuk opted instead for ? blasphemer! ? a nice juicy steak. NASA had conveniently stashed an extra processed bird in case Kadenyuk changed his mind...