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5. "Don't adopted kids have problems?" Children who were adopted are referred to as adoptees in the adoption community.

Hundreds of decrees and laws already adopted are yet to be implemented.

Government agencies say that the enhanced procedures they have adopted are needed to safeguard American citizens.

At city shelters, he said, about half the animals killed because they are not adopted are purebred.

"The peacefulness of Tibet and its ongoing progress have proven that the policies we have adopted are correct," he said.

On past statistical trends those who aren't adopted are more likely to end up in prison than university.

But because she is H.I.V.-positive and already 3 years old, her chances of being adopted are slim.

Among the measures adopted are the implementation of heating controls in its offices, variable speed drives on its pumping stations and tracking systems for its commercial vehicles.

Among changes set to be adopted are the recommendation that banks must ringfence their high street operations from the "casino" style investment businesses.

v. Moran, No. 00-1021, is whether these laws, which 37 states have adopted, are pre-empted and therefore barred by federal law.

The new Duane Reades, following design principles that other retailers have also adopted, are now lighter, airier spaces, with wider aisles, radically redone pharmacies and more.