Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Joni Eareckson's special ministry for the disabled...
...hunger strikers' capitulation was widely seen as a psychological victory for Thatcher, who from the very start refused to bow to the prisoners' demands, principally that they be treated as special-category political prisoners rather than as ordinary convicts. When the seven first refused food, on Oct. 27, they spoke of fasting "until death." Their privations and the frequent reports of their worsening health turned them into near martyrs and quickly raised sectarian tensions throughout the troubled North. Catholics demanded at least a compromise, while Protestants insisted that there be "no surrender." Thatcher held firm...
According to Pechman, proposals to cut such programs are likely to prove politically unpalatable to Congress, which will have to revise existing legislation to bring about reductions. For years Presidents have annually proposed budget cuts to Congress, but these are just as regularly rejected after effective counteraction by special-interest groups...
Even if the plan is accepted by all the parties involved, the ultimate survival of Chrysler will depend on selling the slow-moving K-cars in a recession-battered market. Without an upturn in car sales, no special deal will be able to keep the nation's 17th largest out of bankruptcy court...
...immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...