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We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives.

Four years ago, you weren't seeing a wide adoption of wireless data services. And you weren't seeing a wide consumption of new consumer electronics products.

Hugh Grant

We understand that the adoption of a policy is an important step forward for our business and our industry.

Steve Jobs

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

What it implies is if the adoption of VI occurs, companies will be able to use their existing IP infrastructure, including everything from the switches to the hubs, all the things they are already familiar with, and be able to build extremely high performance data networks, ... Quite frankly, the news blew my mind.

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

Rhea Perlman

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

Together, the Kurds and Shiites have enough votes in parliament to approve the draft constitution and have it voted on; however, the requirements for adoption of the constitution are such that if Sunni provinces uniformly reject it, it will not go into effect,

It certainly marks a major milestone in the adoption curve.

James Allen

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.

We expect to see continued adoption of stream processing within the securities industry as firms move beyond low latency trading and focus on other vital aspects of the business, such as risk management, compliance analysis and liquidity management.

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

We are focused on changing the economics of mobile email adoption with Nokia Business Center. As the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world, we have the distinct advantage of being able to make a great mobile business device that can be used to make phone calls, do email, or use other applications. Considering 70 percent of people who use popular email devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous. In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile email market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate email inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate email market.

The pace of technology innovation is accelerating. The investment demonstrates the company's long-term commitments and builds on the foundation we created during the last ten years. Through the Intel Capital India Technology Fund, Intel will help Indian companies drive technology adoption locally and identify new business opportunities globally. We will grow our local operations, boost venture capital investment and work closely with the government, industry and educators to increase the impact of the country's Information and Communication Technology.

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same direction as adoption did years ago. Family secrets are unhealthy, and disclosure is in the best interest of the child. People have the right to know their genetic history.

Dominique Moceanu

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

Alexander Dubcek

The program proclaimed a return to freedom of the press and proposed the adoption of a press law that would clearly exclude prepublication censorship.

Abraham Lincoln

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saves immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

While there are other initiatives that target increasing the adoption of the Linux desktop, the LSB subcommittee can bring to the table an industry effort with real meat that can further the technical capabilities of the Linux desktop. The more vendors that participate in this initiative the more successful this initiative will be.

The governor believes in the adoption subsidies program, but it was growing unchecked. With a generous means test, the program will be able to continue in the future.

While revenues are relatively modest and, as previously indicated, will take a number of years to build to their full potential, we expect to see increased growth in the number of subscribers as the service moves into a wider user adoption phase.

We have found that to be the biggest barrier to adoption with the customers we worked with. It's definitely a pain point for IT customers.

We've grown significantly these past couple of years, but haven't seen anything as dramatic as last year. By the end of 2005, we were placing or receiving almost 60 million calls per month on behalf of our customers. This alone is a testament to the adoption of the on-demand call center solution, but when taken with all of the other milestones we've accomplished is exceptional proof that businesses around the world are aware of the benefits of this solution, and the model is in great demand.

E. B. White

Our hope is to form a network that will bring animals to Tucson for adoption or fostering. It is crucial to work with a reputable agency to make sure that animals are really available for adoption,

David Lewis

Our study found that the majority of income trusts operate in some of the most capital intensive industries within Canada's economy. There is no evidence to suggest that the adoption of trust structures has had, or for that matter will have, any negative effect on capital investment or Canada's economy.

John Payne

Stamps.com has taken a very simple need, postage, and leveraged the widespread adoption of the Internet to fulfill that need.

Longer term adoption will depend more on business models and content offerings than on the technology or devices. Our research shows that there's strong consumer interest in consuming mobile video. Consumers are just not interested in paying large fees for mediocre content.

I was trying to talk reason, to try and have a two-way conversation. She considered an adoption but then quickly stopped listening.

It is definitely exciting news. I think that this policy will go a long way toward increasing adoption among providers. Providers will begin to realize this is actually a technology they can incorporate into their business practice.

It is just amazing how much she craves human companionship and affection. She has so much love to give when she herself has been given very little ? particularly over the last four months. It is pretty rough to be in the shelter all week and then paraded out for adoption days. She takes chances on humans over and over again, and is grateful for anything she gets in return.

Part of our adoption program is letting the prospective owner come here and spend time with the horse so we can see how he reacts with and treats the animal.

Chelsea Handler

I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.

Marcus Samuelsson

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.