Word: abet
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...Voluntary health-insurance plans face bankruptcy or drastic cutbacks unless current abuses are stopped, said incoming President John R. Thompson Jr. of the Tennessee State Medical Association. He charged: patients seek more benefits than the plans are designed to provide, and doctors abet them...
...abet reckless spirits, the CRIMSON offers today its suggestions for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday courses and will consider Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses tomorrow...
...least bit ashamed of anything I have done or though. But to give information is to aid and abet a political trend which has the characteristic of a national inquisition and which is repugnant to the spirit of the Fifth Amendment. The practical effect of such a trend is to make freedom of speech and association subject to the approval, or surveillance at least, of a group with a narrow set of ideas," Lubell said...
Failure to use the privilege would necessitate that one give a public accounting of his political activities and ideas. I am not in the least bit ashamed of anything I have dons or thought. But to give such information is to aid and abet a political trend which has the characteristics of a national inquisition and which is repugnant to the spirit of the First Amendment. The practical effect of such a tread is to make freedom of speech and associating subject to the approval or surveillance, at least, of a group with a narrow set of ideas...
After Arta's funeral last week, cops arrested Christiansen under a state law that makes it a felony to abet a suicide. But a California court had declared such a law unconstitutional. There is no California law against suicide itself. Asked Deputy District Attorney Ted C. Sten: "How can a person be guilty of a felony as the result of aiding and abetting a deed which is not contrary...