Word: sort
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Because cases like Becky's and Pamela's are so difficult to sort out, they have become this year's combat zone. In the fight to win over the ambivalent majority of Americans, the pro-choice movement is on the wrong side of parental consent: 69% of adult Americans favor laws requiring a teenage girl to get her parents' permission before having an abortion, according to a TIME/ CNN survey. Similarly, pro-lifers lose support over rape and incest: 84% of those polled believe the Government should pay when a rape victim needs an abortion and cannot afford...
...Czechs, of Charter 77 and all, to rock the boat? And now even the placid, nondescript East Germans were taking to the streets, without giving a thought to the delicate balance of power prevailing in the Old World, to the problems of NATO, to the risk involved in any sort of change...
...political leaders on both sides were caught off guard. While the "masses" did not lose a moment, organizing a sort of national jumble sale, changing money, swapping rumors, pulling down fences and repairing bridges, the statesmen scurried from summit to summit, looking more and more nonplussed as they poured forth a torrent of declarations, cautionary tales and contingency plans...
...parental leave law, however, would have provided an opportunity to render that sort of reasoning obsolete. That is, if such a bill were indeed to become law, more and more men would be encouraged to take some time off from work to care for their children, thus taking the onus and stereotypes away from the childbearing women alone. Such a law does indeed have the potential to encourage the philosophy of sharing the responsibilities of raising one's children...
...past three days, photocopied notices with block lettering announced that "all hot water would be shut off in Grays Hall" because of some sort of construction project or something. One day it was to check the pipes. Another day it was to clean the system. You know, technical stuff...