Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giebfried said the role of peer pressure and media images in teenagers who begin to smoke is particularly alarming, and praised the commitment by the Boston Globe not to run smoking ads this month. He said groups are trying to pressure the Boston Herald to adopt the same policy...
Badaracco said the ACSR also spent a considerable amount of time on environmental issues. Much of the discussion centered on proposals that asked companies to adopt the corporate code of conduct established by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres...
Regardless, maybe successful companies should just adopt the following enlightened policy: be nice to competitors on e-mail. After all, Microsoft was so darn pugnacious towards Netscape in some of its internal memoranda! Pretend the market is a touchy-feely place. Sanitize the weeping and gnashing of teeth that economist Joseph Schumpeter identified as crucial to a market's quintessential process of "creative destruction." And above all, be sensitive--you should be well within your rights if you do all that, correct...
...ordinary baby. It's a virtual tot that crawls around on your computer screen after you install the PC CD-ROM called Babyz by Mindscape ($30). And why not? If we can practice our nurturing skills feeding Tamagotchis, tickling Furbies and ordering our pet robots around, surely we can "adopt" a virtual baby or two. After naming your bundle of software joy, you can pop it into the changing room for a bath and dress it in impossibly cute bunny suits that come in every flavor from powder blue to tie-dye. Next, try your luck in the kitchen...
...modern world, you can even have sex and parenthood without suffering the bit in between. Some Hollywood actresses may have satisfied the urge for mothering by electing to adopt children rather than spoil their figures (as they see it) by childbearing. For people as beautiful as this, the temptation to adopt a clone (reared in a surrogate womb) could one day be irresistible...