Word: adoptive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Officially, the Federal Government has neither rejected nor endorsed the A.H.A. dietary recommendations, nor has it taken a position on whether foodmakers should adopt more candid labeling. Since 1980, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have published a brochure offering Americans the following general recommendation: "Avoid too much fat, saturated fat and cholesterol." Throughout this year, officials of both departments are meeting with scientists to discuss whether or not this recommendation should be made more stringent and specific, in light of the N.H.L.B.I. findings. "The time has come for the Federal Government to make some pronouncement...
...exports made their recommendations at a time when Massachusetts is holding public hearings to decide whether to adopt permanent limits on the amount of EDB allowed to foods. EDB became an important health issue last month when checks found supermarket goods with EDB levels as high as 2000 parts per billion, and the Commonwealth responded by imposing a temporary limit of one part per billion...
...year-old General also proposed that the Army adopt smaller, more moveable divisions of about 10,000 men, instead of the standard 18,000 "As a result of the lessons of Grenada, it is clear that we need lighter forces in terms of deployment," Wickham said...
Katrina's new mother and father are one of hundreds of couples who flock to Charleston every year, drawn by the promise of easy adoptive parenthood. In most areas of the country, adoption is a frustrating process, burdened by the red tape and interminable waiting lists of state adoption agencies. Although a few other states also allow adoptions in local courts by nonresidents, South Carolina offers a unique blend of lax laws, aggressive lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state...
...portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that professors adopt a "balanced" approach in their teaching. Our response is two-fold; we find to evidence of a left wing monopoly at Harvard, nor can we find in the call for "balance" anything more than a disguised attempt at censorship...