Word: partiality
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...that would have made a political statement by improving Americans' lives. On some bills, such as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance plan and a measure to correct retroactive immigration restrictions, there is still hope for agreement: The Republican congressional majority should view these bills as its last chance for partial redemption before the Nov. 7 elections...
...Mount stunned Israelis, whose troops faced widespread gunfire from Palestinian police and militia. Upon hearing the calls of their imams to defend the sacred compound, Israel's Arab citizens answered with rioting throughout the Galilee. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to broker a deal but got only a partial cease-fire that few observed...
...issue of abortion, Bush has promised that he will work to reverse the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a partial-birth abortion law passed by the Nebraska legislature. The law, which Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg '74 sought to defend, attempted to ban the horrific procedure in which the baby's brain is extracted from its skull after the baby's limbs are torn from its body. Bush has promised that, if elected, he will appoint justices who would uphold a state's ability to pass such...
...power to work for the pro-choice team as well. The abortion pill shifts the focus from the latest stage of pregnancy to the earliest, when the entire embryo is the size of a grain of rice. For abortion-rights activists scarred by five years of fighting over "partial birth" abortions, that is where they prefer the public debate to take place...
Fifth and finally, such a partial privatization of Social Security would be regressive. Current Social Security benefits provide higher returns to lower-income individuals; that would not be the case in individual accounts. Placing money in private accounts would undermine the concept of a system for common provision. So far, the fears of Social Security shortfall have been used as a club to advance the cause of privatization as a way of "doing something" about the crisis; however, private accounts should appeal only to those who, like Barro, favor them for ideological and not economic reasons...