Generally, you need to adopt bylaws, appoint officers and directors and hold annual meetings, although many states allow smaller corporations to operate in a less formal manner.

WSJ: Forming a C Corporation

More generally, Japan will have to adopt a new energy policy in the face of popular hostility to nuclear power.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

Males who decide to adopt a gay lifestyle late in adulthood generally have known about their orientation since their school years but do not want to risk telling others, he said.

CNN: Coming out late in life complex but not unusual

Generally speaking, that should be the default policy that private information and communications companies adopt when devising speech policies for their platforms.

FORBES: Speech Policies for Information Platforms Are Hard

Any new technology generally costs an arm, a leg, and a bit of your sanity to adopt early, but that's a luxury that the well settled auto market cannot afford.

ENGADGET: Fiat will lose $10,000 on every 500 EV it sells, still intends to bring it to US in 2012