Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...life advocates would say that legalized abortion is itself a state-sanctioned execution.) But what is the alternative to allowing that choice? The continued chipping away at Roe v. Wade. Instead of stripping female prisoners of their identity as human beings and making decisions for them, we could avoid this awful dilemma by taking much more basic action and abolishing the death penalty altogether...
...their marriage vows with tougher, legally mandated divorce standards. In between are lovers at every point on the continuum, from those who live together briefly before marriage as a test of compatibility to those who wed only after long and searching courtships. Many of these are strategies to avoid divorce, says David Popenoe, professor of sociology and co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University...
...malfeasance by the tobacco companies. Taking advantage of mounds of industry documents turned over in other smoker lawsuits, he argued that the cigarette makers had intentionally kept the public in the dark about the dangers of smoking. Even in the face of that evidence, the tobacco companies tried to avoid conceding that cigarettes are addictive or cause cancer. They made a big mistake, says Rosenblatt. "To continue to carry on with this moronic debate...It made the jury as angry as we wanted them...
Speaking of focusing on the positive, remember, it's your government that's in power. I know you want to avoid Clinton fatigue, but frankly, forget about it. The fact is, voters are enjoying the economic boom that has taken place in the last eight years. Ask them (as Reagan did in '80 and '84) are they better off now than they were four years ago? Do they want continued prosperity which can fund greater social services, or do they want massive tax cuts for the same few hundred impossibly wealthy Americans who would have benefited from the estate...
...recent flight, I found the manicotti too darn spicy. I plan to travel a lot this summer and wonder how I can avoid such gastric discomfort...