Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to register previously undocumented tusks in countries that promised to comply with the rules in the future. Such arrangements were made with Singapore and Burundi, which together had more than 390 tons of ivory. Traders' ivory, once suspect because it lacked documentation, suddenly quadrupled in value. In countries intent on barring illegal ivory, customs agents have found thousands of tusks in crates marked BEESWAX, BONE MATERIAL, MARBLE and JEWELRY. But most illicit ivory slips through...
...years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them -- are intent on weaving novel strands of ethnic music into a fresh, global sound. They have been flying down to Rio for inspiration and coming back laden with rhythm...
...Those intent on recovering their past often start by contacting one of the voluntary registries set up by 22 states to match adoptees with birth parents who are looking for them. The most successful effort is the International Soundex Reunion Registry in Carson City, Nev., a private, nonprofit center that since 1975 has matched more than 2,200 people...
Chasing after these scarce infants is harder than ever, as supply flattens and demand soars. Abortion is one reason: half of all unwanted pregnancies are now terminated. Teenage mothers intent on keeping their children are another. In some states a pregnant 15-year-old quickly learns that with a baby she can be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare payments that total as much as $8,000 a year. If she decides on adoption, she may get nothing but the pain of loss and the ridicule of her peers. "Adoption is really unpopular in the schools," says Independent...
...organized by Project Inform, a San Francisco-based group of activists who believe the Food and Drug Administration's system for testing potentially life-saving new drugs is unconscionably slow. On Sept. 19, Project Inform director Martin Delaney revealed the preliminary results of the underground trials to an intent crowd of some 500 predominantly gay men in San Francisco. Although many of the trial's volunteers, including Barnett, showed a marked decrease in activity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, Delaney said, Compound Q could not be considered a cure. But the desperation of the epidemic guarantees...