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...been endlessly wait-listed or rejected by the agencies, the other choice is to go private. At the hub of so-called independent adoptions, meaning placements outside the agencies, are the ranks of lawyers, who usually charge from $1,500 to $4,000 for their legal work. They typically steer couples through a tangle of laws that vary wildly from state to state...
...Please, I am the Prime Minister of a government. I can answer your questions as a Prime Minister but not as an ideological prophet. Only by joint effort can we steer Poland into the future. No one undertaking this task has suicide on his mind. He must have hope in the future...
...Administration explored this latest opening to Iran, Bush was at pains to steer clear of the mistakes that toppled Jimmy Carter's presidency and badly tarnished Ronald Reagan's. While pointedly refusing to offer any quid pro quo, he stepped carefully back from Reagan's stated policy of never negotiating with terrorists. If the hostages come home, Bush hinted, he might consider releasing Iranian assets -- principally undelivered weapons paid for in advance -- that have been frozen by the U.S. since 1979. "Goodwill begets goodwill," he said, quoting his own Inaugural Address...
...reading that people aren't interested in that ((issue)) anymore. Well, my ((internal)) clock tells me that's wrong, and I don't need ((Republican pollster)) Bob Teeter to show me a poll to make me convinced it's wrong." Although Bush insists that he does not steer his policies by the polls, he loves to use survey data to silence skeptics. After he permanently banned imported assault weapons, for example, he privately brandished poll results showing support for his position in the home states of some of his congressional critics...
...Trattner supplied the IRS with anonymous, remedial tax payments from the clients, as well as keys to hidden safe-deposit boxes containing the unfiled tax returns of the cheaters. The purpose: to reduce the culpability of Trattner's clients in case they were investigated. If that happened, Trattner would steer the IRS to the tax returns as evidence of his client's participation...