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Dole's supporters have tried to pin the abortionist label on Dr. Roy, an obstetrician who delivered no fewer than 5,000 babies and performed several legal abortions. Roy, who has been active in politics all his career, campaigns largely on his support of public health and environmental issues. Dole has his hands full just trying to wrench himself clear of his party. After President Ford pardoned Nixon and announced his amnesty program, Dole quipped that he had received "about all the help from President Ford that I can stand." Neck and neck...
...that exist in all too many of today's factories. The pair worked separately (Scott full time for three years, Brodeur intermittently for six) but often on the same scandalous health conditions. The tone of their writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal the indifference of Government bureaucrats charged with enforcing industrial health laws. They come to a common conclusion: for many years, many industries, doctors and Government agencies have joined in a tacit conspiracy to downplay industrial dangers in order not to panic workers, tarnish corporate...
...sense means "a band of foot soldiers," which suggests "infantry," which (by a leap of sound past sense) suggests "infants": slack freshman faces staring in sweet stupefaction as an exiled genius speaks subtly of Lermontov. Snagged in the net, this dubious flutterer is obviously fake or freak. No matter. Pin it to the board and name it after poor old VadimVadimych...
Both Chief Reagan and City Manager Sullivan declared lack of knowledge as to when the now recovered Anderson tapes would be transcribed and an Internal Affairs Hearing could begin. The Council failed to pin the Chief and the City Manager to a specific timetable, and completely dismissed the Coalition demand that additional clerical assistance be hired to complete the transcription in order to commence a public hearing on the Anderson case within ten days...
...Well, you took it in four straight," one interested onlooker exclaimed to a syndicate contributer who was wearing the green pants and green pin, with the winning yacht's number 26 emblazoned in gold...