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...except the spousal- notification provision. But in the process it declared that abortion is no longer a fundamental right that requires courts to apply "strict scrutiny" to any restrictions that states might apply. If the Supreme Court endorses that view, it would send a signal to legislatures that even steeper obstacles to abortion might be acceptable so long as they can be justified by the easier standard of a "legislative rationale." Says Kathryn Kolbert, an A.C.L.U. lawyer who will argue the case before the court: "If states are given a green light to pile on one more restriction after another...
...abundant in the 1980s, has dried up as investors have become more cautious. The amount of venture capital raised by start-up companies during 1990 fell 53% from the previous year, to $202 million. When the numbers for 1991 are in, they are expected to show an even steeper decline...
...these corrective actions to close the budget gap may have to be coupled with a stricter tightening on expenditures and further administrative cuts if the state makes any steeper cuts in aid, according to DePasquale...
...Thornburgh for a Senate seat from Pennsylvania two weeks ago, understood the impatience of working-class voters with Democrats who talk more about the agendas of gay and feminist activists than about lunch-box economic issues. Wofford avoided that mistake by talking mostly about jobs and health insurance. Fred Steeper, a Republican pollster who surveyed Louisiana voters before the recent primary vote, observes that "Duke is tapping into the same middle-class frustration as Wofford" -- but in a far more destructive...
...midst of Soviet disunion, what's going to happen to the nukes? Money- hungry military officers in some hot spots are already renting armored personnel carriers and other weaponry to local militias with turf to protect. But they could probably get much steeper prices from more ambitious troublemakers abroad, especially those looking for really hard-to-find goods. "In this country at this time," says a Soviet historian, "anything can happen. If you can come up with a guarantee of $2 million, hard currency, I wager that I can put you in touch with somebody who would sell...