Word: door
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reunions are not for everyone. Some birth mothers would slam the door if their relinquished baby came knocking. In fact, the search process is the focus of a great debate in adoption circles. Critics contend that it breaks legal contracts, that confidentiality should be the cornerstone of adoption. Says a woman who gave up a child 28 years ago: "The mere thought of being found by this baby is so upsetting. I made a new life for myself, and it doesn't include...
...every adopted child wants to open that door. "A search would rob me of a certain amount of security, the security that comes from believing that the family I know is my real family," argues Rhonda Brown, 34, a New York City lawyer. "I'm the one who has finally defined my identity -- not someone from the mysterious past...
...August, 1988, the city granted the school a certificate of occupancy, allowing students to attend classes there. But in September, next-door-neighbor Jean Brooks filed an appeal to the city to block further expansion and submitted the neighbors' petition. The city's Zoning Board of Appeal approved an expansion of the school...
Between 11:50 p.m. Sunday and 5:30 a.m. Monday, an "unknown person" broke into Nini's newsstand, at Mass. Ave. and Brattle St., then moved next door to the Greenhouse Coffee Shop, according to the Cambridge police journal...
...bombings, which killed one Pakistani pilgrim, may also have had an Iranian connection. Saudi television broadcast what it said was the confession of the ringleader, Mansour Hassan Abdullah Mehmeid, 32. He and some of his accomplices had received Iranian training, said Mehmeid, and "collected the explosives from the back door of the Iranian embassy in Kuwait...