Word: abortment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected to abort the approach and go around for another landing. Fortunately...
...hospitals' arbitrary rulings extend to individual cases. Dr. Robert Hall, a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, wanted to abort an 18-year-old girl in Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital required that he first get parental permission, although the girl had left home. Hall is now seeking a court order to establish the rights of teenagers. A decision either way in the case, he says, will at least set a precedent. Insists Hall: "A girl who's old enough to get pregnant is old enough to have an abortion...
...speculative return on hot money exchanged in the money marker). The actual material not reflected in inflated money concerns them only peripherally, as a limiting factor. The simple device of "holding the line" on wages can augment rates of return on currency (in this case the dollar) and abort speculative runs against the endangered currency. In other words, the only available way for banking groups to stabilize the exchange rates (prices) of any commodity, including the currency commodity, is to increase its "power" over actual material wealth through appropriating, as the proceeds of investment, wealth otherwise accruing to working people...
...obligation is to buy when no one else will. Specialists have had to swallow gigantic quantities of stock on which they have accumulated huge paper losses. They can be expected to disgorge some of their holdings whenever prices start to rise - a factor that may tend to abort rallies...
Aquarius responded well, but mission planners were still faced with a number of agonizing decisions. How could they best bring the distressed spacecraft home as quickly as possible but with a minimum of risk? A "deep-space abort"?turning the spacecraft around before it reached the moon and sending it back to earth?was obviously beyond the power of the lunar module's small descent engine. Odyssey's big propulsion engine, in the service module, was powerful enough to turn Apollo in midflight, but Houston was reluctant to try using it. Controllers were concerned that the engine might have...