Word: parenting
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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...
...custody of her "pre-born children" for future implantation. Junior Davis, 31, claims he is being "raped of my reproductive rights" by his estranged wife and insists on having a joint say on the future of the embryos. "I do not want a child of mine in a single-parent situation," he argued...
...nomination process for approximately 250 elected positions will begin next week. Union members will have the opportunity to serve on the executive board, on 25 "joint councils" across campus, as campus-wide officers and as representatives to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), HUCTW's parent union...
Amid the growing scrutiny, the takeover whirl accelerated last week. In Chicago directors of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, approved a bid by the carrier's management and pilots' union to buy out the second largest U.S. carrier for $6.75 billion. In the highly leveraged deal, employees would own 75% of the company, top managers would get 10% and investor British Airways would have 15%. Beverly Hills billionaire Marvin Davis, who had bid $6.19 billion for UAL, said he would match the management group's offer if that package were to fail. In Washington a takeover group headed...
...their own mechanics. American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, has already started such a school. American currently runs 30- sec. TV commercials that stress maintenance and extol the airline's mechanics as "uncompromising professionals dedicated to perfection, flight after flight after flight." Meanwhile, the stock of AMR, American's parent company, jumped 13% in a single day last month on rumors that the firm might become the target of a takeover bid. But like Delta, which put 14% of its stock into an employee stock-ownership plan to thwart raiders in July, American insists that it is not for sale...