Word: opened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forefront of the movement are the N.A.A.C. and ALMA (Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), which lobby to change state laws protecting the confidentiality of adoption records. Three states -- Alabama, Alaska and Kansas -- have completely open records, available to all adoptees over 18. Other states require the consent of a birth parent, the child and one or both adoptive parents before documents may be unsealed...
...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...
...expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign back in the window...
When Adolph Coors and Bernhard Stroh started their breweries more than a century ago, the beer industry was wide open and hundreds of small companies were able to compete. Today the top five brewers control 90% of the market and the industry is no longer so forgiving. Last week struggling Stroh agreed to sell most of its brewery operations to Coors for $425 million...
This is the way Nicole wants it: open, easy, absent of mystery. As it happens, she was adopted herself. "I've had lots of love in my life, but lots of questions, medical things, heredity. With open adoption, all these questions will be answered for my daughter...