Forty-five states have adopted it through legislation, California among them, and five by judicial doctrine.
The states that have already adopted it through their legislatures are small (Vermont), medium (New Jersey) and large (California) among others.
Government should also take the lead in supporting the take-up of the Living Wage by encouraging local councils to adopt it and through instating it across Whitehall.
Its lending practices are exactly those that consumer bodies would like to see commercial payday lenders adopt: it operates through accessible branches, lends to people on benefits and interviews all potential customers – either by phone or face-to-face – to make sure they can afford repayment on the loans they are asking for.
A rigid adherence to the dollar either by adopting it directly through dollarisation, or through a currency board, where sucres in circulation would be backed by dollars at the central bank could bring badly needed credibility (much as stomach-stapling or tooth-wiring might convince you that a fat man was serious about losing weight).Technically, too, the proposal is feasible.
In our village in Nova Scotia, there used to be an elderly man named Sylvanus Nowe — a moniker so splendiferous that a Canadian writer who passed through, Donna Morrissey, adopted it, with a slightly different spelling, as the title of her next novel.
It adopts quadratic through-thickness variation of the in-plane and transverse displacement components.
The Tigers adopted him through the Friends of Jaclyn charity.
But sometimes, making desalination part of the approach to water management may be the only way to ensure a steady supply of drinking water.In drought-ridden Western Australia, which ordered conservation years ago, the Water Corporation has adopted what it calls "security through diversity", otherwise known in the industry as the "portfolio" approach.
Understanding the difference between surrogacy, private adoption, closed adoption, open adoption or adopting through your state can be overwhelming at first.
