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Hyde then provided some elaboration of what the Republican Convention understood by the platform's reiteration of "traditional family values." Opposition, for example, to palimony, "rewarding a woman with money for living with a man outside of marriage." Opposition to pornography, which "would sicken a gynecologist." But opposition also to school busing for desegregation-"a form of conscription." Opposition to federal housing projects-"but none where you live, Senator Percy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On Traditional Family Values | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...memory: "We knew that it was to feed us you had to endure demons and physical labor." But she adds: "What I want from you is for you to tell me that those curses are only common Chinese sayings. That you did not mean to make me sicken at being female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Gold Mountain | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

EVERY NOW AND THEN a film comes along that arouses a good deal of disagreement among both critics and the general audience. The axiom holds true for films, as for everything else, that which one man loves may well sicken another. This sort of critical and public debate should be encouraged; after all, it makes for a better-informed audience and we can only hope that a better-informed audience will demand and eventually get better films...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Missing the Mark, Italian Style | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

...also produced a fire retardant, Firemaster, the only commercial product in the United States that contains PBB. In September 1973, several bags of Firemaster were mistakenly shipped with the Nutrimaster to the Michigan Farm Bureau for distribution to Michigan's farmers. Within weeks, cattle throughout the state began to sicken...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: To the Ends of the Earth: The Spread of Industrial Poisons | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

...high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger proportions of corn, malt, sour-smelling silage, beet pulp, minerals and antibiotics. The animal's metabolism is soon racing so hard to digest the rich fare that if its diet is drastically changed, the steer will sicken and could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Raising Cattle by Computer | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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