Word: adopting
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...might want to adopt.' MILLA JOVOVICH, actress and model, joking about how she gained 65 lbs. (about 30 kg) during the first four months of her first pregnancy. She is due to give birth in November...
...very en vogue for celebrities to adopt children from all over the world. How do you feel about adoption by celebrities and non-celebrities alike? -Wayne Meyer in Port Elizabeth, Republic of South AfricaI think any child that finds a loving home is a blessing...
...legislation’s political consequences, however, are manifest. By taxing Chinese imports, the United States would adopt a protectionist stance that would set an international precedent contradictory to the promotion of free trade. Further, in forcing OPIC to deny new financing to countries with “fundamentally misaligned currencies,” the bill would distance the U.S. from the very emerging market economies that the government would want to participate in free trade...
...Liberal interest groups have had a field day running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-child commercials: adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes the President and members of his party for blocking the S-CHIP bill ("George Bush just vetoed Abby" intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the opening salvo in a wider appropriations battle. Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming - and expensive - spending bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...intransigence, there is a silver lining. Now that the UC has proven willing to act in open defiance of the administration, surely we can expect it to mobilize with the same force to campaign for lower textbook costs for low-income students or to persuade the University to adopt more socially responsible investment policies. Perhaps in the future, the UC will save its political capital for campus advocacy that matters rather than petty fights over students’ rights to get drunk for free...