Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just such local efforts that have failed most conspicuously in the past. Half the states and many cities now have some kind of air-pollution legislation; about 15 more states are expected to act this year. Some of the states that have such statutes, however, have failed to adopt realistic regulations to implement them. In some cases, regulatory commissions are heavily weighted with representatives of industry. Four of the nine members of the New Jersey commission, for instance, represent companies identified by the U.S. Public Health Service as significant contributors to pollution...
...clear the air in Chicago, the city has launched a campaign to force local steel plants to adopt costly antipollution techniques, and transportation officials are investigating combination diesel-electric buses that would reduce ex haust fumes. An Illinois legislator has gone so far as to introduce a bill that would limit the use of Illinois coal-which has a high sulphur content-in public buildings...
Money & Religion. About 80% of the adopted children are born to unwed mothers, and, despite vastly improved methods of birth control, the loosening of moral standards has trebled the official illegitimacy rate in the U.S. since 1940.* At the same time, the Depression-born ranks of people aged 25 to 35, who most commonly want to adopt children, are proportionately slender now. There are still many more young couples wanting children than there are available infants. But the ratio, once 10 to 1, is now down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York...
...Most adoption agencies no longer insist that applicants must be affluent and childless. In Texas, families with incomes as low as $3,000 have been allowed to take children, and Los Angeles County has placed some with families on relief. The old thumb rule that the parents' combined ages could not exceed 80 is largely gone. California and several other states have permitted a few unmarried women to adopt children...
...raising production. He favors land reform, but notes that the time-honored method of cutting up large estates only cuts output. Rather than wasting time trying to increase the productivity of illiterate peasant farmers, the state in the short run should concentrate on inducing large, rich farmers to adopt modern methods...