11.   In March, they completed the adoption screening process, and the baby countdown began.

12.   It is true that the adoption process is more open now than when I was a child.

13.   Johnson said the listings are just the beginning of how the Internet can ease the adoption process.

14.   Larry Sinnett, program administrator for the Colorado Department of Human Services, said it is important to remember that the adoption process itself has not been made easier.

15.   Luong said yes, and Garvey began the reams of paperwork to begin the adoption process for her third Vietnamese son.

16.   Mayer began researching information about workplace adoption policies after she and her husband began the adoption process two years ago.

17.   Mrs. Shevardnadze is convinced that the foreign adoption process is riddled with corruption, and Western diplomats in Georgia say the president privately shares her views.

18.   Sherry and Bill Bogdanovich hope the new regulation also will help expedite the overseas adoption process.

19.   Some infertile people enter the adoption process with concern about how things will turn out, others with sorrow about their inability to procreate.

20.   The adoption process, however, is slow.