Word: adoptive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should be easier for gays and lesbians to adopt and raise children, panelists said yesterday in an Institute of Politics discussion at the Kennedy School of Government...
...audience member asked if gays and lesbians are held to a higher standard when they try to adopt children...
...panelists agreed that homosexual couples experience a much more difficult examination that do comparable heterosexual couples seeking to adopt...
Bill Clinton's Administration has proclaimed Asia "one of the most important regions for U.S. policy going into the 21st century." But recently U.S. Asia policy has taken a downward slide. Washington failed to persuade Japan to adopt tangible targets for opening specific segments of its market to more imports. Secretary of State Warren Christopher visited Beijing under a storm cloud of criticism from the Chinese, who accused the U.S. of interfering in their internal affairs by demanding human-rights improvements in order to continue granting China most-favored-nation trade status. And no sooner had Christopher returned home than...
...been blown, but so has its monopoly on encryption technology. As computers -- the engines of modern cryptography -- have proliferated, so have ever more powerful encryption algorithms. Telephones that offered nearly airtight privacy protection began to appear on the market, and in January U.S. computermakers said they were ready to adopt a new encryption standard so robust that even the NSA couldn't crack...