Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, a few state legislatures enforced laws banning from campuses speakers who pleaded the Fifth Amendment or refused to sign non-Communist affidavits, or threatened to "do violence to the academic atmosphere." Mississippi officials used such a statute in the late 1960's to keep Charles Evers and Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP, from giving speeches at state universities. These examples should remind us that educational institutions can never take free speech for granted and that its enemies come from many different ideologies and dogmas...
...House were in fashion; another year, rip-offs of Raiders of the Lost Ark were the rage. This year, however, the networks have scarcely looked beyond their own backyard for inspiration. Along with the crime fighters, there will be the requisite batch of sitcoms, more romantic fluff from the Aaron Spelling factory, another in the parade of blooper shows (ABC's People Do the Craziest Things) and a weekly version of a hit NBC mini-series from last season, V. The only discernible outside influence is the rock-on-film trend, sparked by Fame, Flashdance and MTV. They have...
Their first choice from the Manhattan agency failed her mandatory psychological test, which found her to be too emotionally unstable. Valerie, who was Aaron and Mandy's second choice, passed without a hitch. A vivacious woman who is an avid reader, she more than met the couple's demands for a surrogate who was "reasonably pretty," did not smoke or drink heavily and had no family history of genetic disease. Says Aaron: "We were particularly pleased that she asked us questions to find out whether we really want this child...
...their part, Aaron and Mandy have agreed to pay Valerie $10,000 to be kept in an escrow account until the child is in their legal custody. In addition, they have paid an agency fee of $7,500 and are responsible for up to $4,000 in doctors' fees, lab tests, legal costs, maternity clothes and other expenses. In April, Valerie became pregnant after just one insemination with Aaron's sperm. Mandy says she was speechless with joy when she heard the news...
...surrogate arrangements work so well. Some women have refused to give up the child they carried for nine months. As a lawyer, Aaron is aware that the contract he signed with Valerie would not hold up in court, should she decide to back out of it. "But I'm a romantic," he says. "I have always felt that the real binding force was not paper but human commitment." Valerie, whose pregnancy is just beginning to show, says she is "conditioning" herself not to become too attached to the baby. "It is not my husband's child," she says...