Word: accessity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although many congressional wives work (there are no husbands in the Senate, a handful in the House), finding a job can be difficult. Says Emerson: "Unless an employer is looking for special access through you, you just look like trouble -- someone who will want all congressional recesses off, will have to travel back to the district to campaign on weekends, and might not be here two years later if your husband loses." Heather Foley, wife of Majority Leader Tom Foley, solved the problem by taking a job -- gratis -- in her husband's office...
Wheeler argued that "ROTC only wants to be granted the same access rights to the campus as other groups," and added that Harvard gladly accepts money for military research projects...
...middle of conversation in a normal tone, a groaned "Jesus help us.") The prayer does not deliver a plan, but at least it slows down response. By then police cars are clearing away the roadblocks. After all, the cops' assignment today is to keep people from obstructing access. The pro-choice maneuver, though it fails, has bought time for its side; the pro-lifers move out late, attended by the pro-choicers, who have turned their blockading cars into moving observation posts along the flank of the caravan, signaling by radio the course that is being...
Though contraception is available -- prescribed by a doctor with parental consent -- Carrera knows that access to birth control is not enough. "When kids are empowered with information and stimulated by hope for the future, it has a contraceptive effect," says Carrera. "Education. Employment. Their own bank accounts. Good health. Family involvement. Self-esteem. These are also contraceptives. It's the total fabric that is important." Carrera also teaches them how to play sports, like squash, that rely on individual discipline and control. "Whenever you posit a single solution to a complex problem, you are not as successful...
...exceedingly so. Even before proceedings started, Salcido asked to return to the U.S., and he was whisked back on a plane lent to authorities by Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz. But not all extraditions are that uncomplicated. For well-financed and influential fugitives like Khashoggi, who have access to top legal talent, the process can drag out for months. Soon after Khashoggi's arrest, his U.S. lawyer landed in Bern, and his Swiss attorney announced, "We intend to look at all the legal angles open...