Word: amenities
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...real biased push to normalize same-sex parenting." He adds, "I don't see any shortage of heterosexual parents willing to adopt." Although they say it's not linked to the anti- gay-adoption effort, Focus and other conservative Christian groups have begun their own adoption drives. Amen, say adoption experts. "We need more qualified parents, period," says Woronoff. On that point, at least, everyone seems to agree...
...breaking, finally full daylight, as the? sound track comes alive with loud crickets, braying, mooing and breathy, muffled screams. Brilliant sunshine bathes the family's kitchen as they take morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of the clock. Esther raises her eyes, Johan says, "Amen," and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps uncontrollably...
...Robert Amen, IFF's CEO, would prefer to keep those relationships quiet. In other industries, execs love to crow about their deals with big, powerful companies. Not here. When you partner one day with, say, Colgate and the next with Crest, you're better off keeping your list of friends to yourself. "We're the ghostwriters," says Nicolas Mirzayantz, 44, head of IFF's smell division...
...privy to the name--or even the type--of a final product being prepared. A stolen vial of manufactured fragrance isn't the easiest thing to fence on the open market. "It would be very unusual to sell a fragrance or ingredient for more than a few million dollars," Amen says...
...Amen. But as I know from my days in 2001 as the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, many well-meaning people harbor legitimate concerns about government's partnering with religious groups, even if solely to expand good works. That may be because the civic significance of what faith-based organizations do is little noticed or just taken for granted...