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...writes that he is on the brink of a decision to abandon the ROTC shield from the draft: "I am about resolved to go to England come hell or high water and take my chances." He is not referring to the risk of being run over by a double-deck bus on the Oxford High Street...
...allowed Kreimer's petition to list "the streets of the fourth ward of Morristown" as a voting address. The following month, Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin struck down the library's rules of conduct as arbitrary and in violation of Kreimer's First Amendment rights. "If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke their conditions, not their library cards," Sarokin wrote...
According to Hinga, "women formed a group called the Shield to protect their daughters against circumcision" during the colonialist period...
...nation's first comprehensive play-or-pay program was enacted by Michael Dukakis when he was Governor of Massachusetts to provide a shield for 400,000 uninsured state residents. Under the Dukakis program, companies were compelled to contribute to a state fund for each uninsured worker. But the plan soon ran into resistance from business leaders, who said the levy was cutting into profits. Current Massachusetts Governor William Weld has promised to repeal the program...
...cynic might see the silicone-implant business as another malfeasance on the scale of the Dalkon Shield (which had a tendency to cause devastating infections), DES (which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that...