Word: adopting
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...floor of Nairobi's cavernous Jomo Kenyatta International Conference Center. After almost two weeks of often bitter debate, delegations from 160 countries managed a relatively harmonious conclusion to a conference marking the end of the United Nations Decade for Women. A series of compromises enabled the conference to adopt unanimously a document of "forward-looking strategies" for women that avoided ideological extremes. "The U.N. won in spite of itself," said Delegate Rosario Manalo of the Philippines, "and it took women...
Last Monday, the Council voted 8-0 to adopt the unanimous recommendation of the Cambridge License Commission to keep Tyler from running his two amphibious tour vehicles in the city. Tyler had first proposed his idea to the licensing body in late...
...PAUL Barking dog again? On stpaul.gov report a gripe and track its progress online. Learn how to "adopt" new Hmong refugees (5,000 expected in '05) by helping with rent...
...their home (an exception is made for giving one's child beer). A similar bill is pending in Wyoming. In Connecticut, enthusiasm for house-party ordinances is picking up momentum, with 22 towns jumping on the wagon in the past 11/2 years alone. Legislation has also been proposed to adopt a statewide...
Stirred by reports of genocide in Sudan, Swarthmore College senior Mark Hanis concocted a zany scheme last fall: an “adopt-a-peacekeeper” fund to finance an African Union (AU) force stationed in Darfur...