Word: aborted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later primaries. Jackson hopes to run well in New Hampshire and then score an upset win in Alabama. McGovern is trying to hang on until the Super Tuesday primary in Massachusetts, where he thinks he can finish second. Askew is counting on a turnout of an ti abort ion voters to give him a respectable showing in Iowa, followed by a strong home-state vote in Florida three weeks later. As for Rollings, it will take a miracle to keep him in contention...
...Haven, we found, all looks about the same. Our biggest problem was that we couldn't tell the difference between New Haven and Yale. So we walked for a while. I was with Beth and Mark. I kept hoping to see a police car so we could abort the whole thing. But we kept walking...
...Grenada operation became subtly intertwined with the atrocities in Lebanon. With so many American lives just lost, could Reagan risk more so soon in a military action he had the power to abort? Momentarily, he considered abandoning the invasion. Never, recalled an aide, had Reagan felt the burdens of the presidency so heavily. Could we permit "more blood on our hands?" one adviser asked somberly...
...afflicts their two-year-old son. For both couples, the odds are one in four that any child they bear will be defective. When the two wives became pregnant earlier this year, they intended to undergo amniocentesis, a test to determine if the fetuses were normal. Each planned to abort...
...strong upturn is continuing. U.S. industrial production rose 1.1% in June, the seventh monthly increase in a row, while June retail sales gained .7%. Says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "A percentage point increase on the interest rate would not abort the expansion because it's got a lot of speed-but then it needs a lot of speed." He added, however, that "it would be dangerous to tighten too much." Observes Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser: "Higher interest rates now will have very...