Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Delegates used a morning session to adopt a decidedly conservative platform that calls for constitutional amendments outlawing abortion and denying citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants...
...world did not let them go quietly. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounced the destruction as a "prenatal massacre"; protesters held a vigil outside Westminster Cathedral before the event and memorial services afterward; and people across Europe offered to "adopt" the frozen cells to preserve them. Childless couples bitterly lamented that they would gladly have taken the embryos for themselves. And some clinic workers contemplated going to jail rather than carry out the law, though they yielded...
...move that could signal the beginning of much broader use of Crimson Cash throughout the University, two major library systems have decided to adopt that payment method for photocopying services...
...industry to program three hours of educational shows a week for children. Surrounded by 50 TV executives, actors, children's advocates and producers, Clinton told American parents that they were not alone in the struggle to keep disturbing images away from their children. The FCC is not required to adopt the "three-hour rule," but if it does not, the agency will be blocking a move calculated to score family values points for the President as the November election approaches. Women voters, a key demographic group for the Democrats, are especially concerned about protecting children from images...
...which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came...