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...limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan for his or her future within 18 months should be made available for adoption, an absentee parent can thwart such attempts by just minimal contact during those 18 months. Result: of the estimated 276,000 children in foster care in 1986, the last year for which statistics are available, perhaps just 13% were immediately available for adoption...
...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...
...named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference of hard-liners who attempted to thwart the efforts of incoming Party Secretary Zhao to speed the pace of reforms. As Culture Minister, He replaces Wang Meng, a liberal-minded author who has not been seen since June...
...single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University, every year some 650,000 Americans use firearms to thwart criminal assault. That's 12,500 a week...
...average salaries in the league keep rising, management will try to devise any methods to thwart rising costs," Duberstein said, "but I would say Hinz got a Harvard-sized deal. If he sticks with the team, he certainly will have the best contract of all 11th-round draft choices--he got a contract equivalent to that of a high eighth-round choice...