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The song was written by legendary composer John Williams and originally was called “Wide Receiver,” although NBC never adopted that name.

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Eight years ago, James and his husband adopted two children under the age of six and have since adopted a third.

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The US holiday - which falls this Friday - has been firmly adopted by UK retailers, and what was once a single day of sales has now spread to the weeks before and after.

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That benchmark is the poverty line, created by a Social Security Administration economist, Mollie Orshansky, in 1963, and then adopted the next year by the White House.

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Mr Leitch said many providers "adopted good practices" before but the guidance and the Steeper family's campaigning had "basically made this a mandatory obligation, and therefore everybody will sit up and take notice".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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