Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support access to health care for all, and a government program that can provide that access," President and CEO of Baystate Medical Center Michael Daly said. "However, that commitment carries with it a commitment to adequately fund the services that people need...
...Access to the courts. As an appeals judge, Bork also took a narrow view of the right of plaintiffs to bring their cases before the court. Accordingly, he voted to dismiss suits brought by veterans, the homeless, the handicapped and consumer groups. Opponents point out that he has rarely ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that...
Critics charge that Arroyo has been too protective of the President, blocking access to her, suppressing documents he does not want her to see, and generally insulating her from political and economic realities. His public criticism of the military has alienated the country's top officers, among them such staunch Aquino loyalists as Armed Forces Chief Fidel Ramos. Almost every attempted coup in the past 18 months, including the most recent one, has demanded the ouster of Arroyo as well as that of another outspoken Aquino adviser, Speechwriter Teodoro Locsin. Many military men allege that Arroyo is a Communist...
...compiled by the 17-country War Crimes Commission at the end of World War II, have been gathering dust on the eighth floor of a United Nations office building in New York City. Next week Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar will decide whether researchers and historians will be given access to the confidential records, which were "discovered" by Israeli officials last year. The documents sparked the controversy over the alleged participation in Nazi war crimes of Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. Secretary-General who is now President of Austria. Opponents of increased access argue that the archives contain unsubstantiated charges...
...probable step would be the court's approval of statutes that require minors to get parental permission for an abortion. On Nov. 3 the Justices will hear oral arguments in Hartigan v. Zbaraz, an appeal of a decision striking down an Illinois statute restricting minors' access to abortion...