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...what is and who yet are driven by a sense of what it is possible for human life to be in this society. The nation could not survive being deprived of their presence because, by the irony implicit in the dynamics of American democracy, they symbolize both its most stringent testing and the possibility of its greatest human freedom...
...were the workouts, according to several Crimson players, made stringent enough. "We did more on the freshman team," one remarked...
...Board should aim for a money-supply increase averaging 3% to 4% at an annual rate over the next six months. Other members disagree only over whether the Reserve Board should reach that target gradually, as Heller and Pechman prefer, or immediately, to make up for having been too stringent too long, as Sprinkel and Okun urge...
BETSY SABLE, counselor at Planned Parenthood in Boston, said last fall that the organizations pushing for the liberalization of the Massachusetts abortion laws were afraid to bring a bill before the legislature because the result would probably be more stringent definition and enforcement of the current nebulous law. Unfortunately, the proponents of the birth control bill did not realize that the results of their drive for a more equitable contraception law would be the same. For at the conclusion of the hearing, the committee seemed to have decided that the only way to rectify the injustices of the present laws...
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