Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went through some rough times. The kids wouldn't play with me. They said my mother didn't want me." There was worse to come. In a health and sex-education class, "my teacher went all off on the subject of how adopted kids are second choice," she recalls angrily. "He said it was the worst thing you could do to a child -- if you had a choice, you should have an abortion...
...researcher and writer: all three have experienced adoption firsthand. Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth, who suggested the project, is the adoptive father of Piya, 5, and Mike, 4. Already parents of a son, David, who arrived the conventional way, Willwerth and his wife Ardis chose a daughter and a second son from two different Bangkok orphanages during his assignment in Thailand. Giving a home to "waiting" children "longing for love and attention," says Willwerth, "is to witness an extraordinary miracle. They blossom before your eyes." As he talked with other parents, children and adoption professionals, he says, "I had credentials...
...ruled in the 1950s and '60s, stands as a symbol of better times. But his erratic behavior in recent months has baffled Cambodians and international observers alike as he has bounced between conciliation with Hun Sen and collaboration with the Khmer Rouge. Son Sann maintains links with a second guerrilla force whose disciplined units are outnumbered by troops preoccupied with smuggling and black-market trading. And the Khmer Rouge continue to inspire revulsion among a populace that remains deeply scarred by Pol Pot's reign of terror between...
Some entertainment-industry observers suggested that Congress should challenge the Sony deal as well. For one thing, entertainment is the second largest U.S. export industry (aerospace is first). Moreover, Pat Choate, an economist and author of a forthcoming book on Japanese involvement in U.S. politics, sees Sony as a company that zealously lobbies for its own interests and stands to gain substantial influence over U.S. public opinion. Just as overseas firms are barred from owning U.S. television stations because of the potential for spreading propaganda, Choate notes, limits should perhaps be placed on foreign ownership of Hollywood studios...
Deliberately patterning their life-style on John Kennedy's Camelot, Marcos and his wife enthralled most Filipinos when he initially took office. He also set about fulfilling his campaign promises of reforms in industry and education. But by his second term, in January 1970, the tide had begun to turn against the brilliant young President. Protesting the country's economic inequities, militant anti-American students pelted the Marcoses with rocks and bottles, forcing the couple to bolt themselves inside Malacanang Palace for their own security...