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He had suffered a near-fatal heart attack the year before, and she had had several miscarriages before adopting the child from a teenage mother in Texas.

Adopting this public comment would increase the size of the identifier to ten digits, including one mathematically calculated digit to assure the accuracy of the other digits.

For all intents and purposes, the adopted child becomes a legitimate child of the adopting parents, standing on equal footing with the latter's biological children (if any).

"By adopting an animal, it helps us to remain connected with nature.

Adopting NFPA-5000 would be snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory and would push us back, instead of ahead.

Only Florida explicitly bars all gay men and lesbians from adopting, while Mississippi and Utah bar same-sex couples from adopting.

At the same time, many of these states enacted their own versions of some Code provisions (e.g., by adopting different NOL periods or different depreciation methods).

Similarly, the group recommended developing a simple electronic filing system for retailers adopting the certified system approach.

Innovation decisions in organizations differ from individuals' adopting new processes or methods.

Gager shows that parent(s) giving up children often transferred funds to the adopting parents to help defray some of the latters' expenses, though children tended to pass from less to more affluent homes.

At the time the Federal Reserve Board sought public comment on adopting its appraisal regulation, the USPAP was in the process of being revised, and the Board, as well as the other financial institutions regulatory agencies, was uncertain whether the substance of the final version would fully satisfy the purposes and the requirements of Title XI.

"There are not that many children in Australia who need adopting, so we looked internationally and that is what is difficult," he added.

The City updated its electric code by adopting some of the latest standards of the 2002 National Electric Code, making life easier for those in the electrical engineering industry.

It upsets me to no end that homophobia is such a given in the process of adopting children.

To qualify for the revenue procedure's provisions, the employer must either (1) adopt the M&P plan before the end of the GUST remedial amendment period or, also before the end of the GUST remedial amendment period, (2) execute (along with the M&P plan sponsor or a volume-submitter sponsor) a written certification that it intends to amend or restate its plan by adopting the GUST-approved M&P or volume-submitter specimen plan, and have the sponsor submit an application for a complete GUST opinion or advisory letter for the M&P plan or volume-submitter specimen plan by Dec.