Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevents Lasch from considering that Skinner's case perhaps exemplifies the universal tendency of the unsupervised intellect to create systems and products which are useless, in jurious, or unacceptable to mere human its. Though it is heresy in some circles to suggest it, the proper as well as the actual test of ideas may prove to be their political usefulness and social acceptability not their academic popularity...
...issue of exceptions to the rule. One of the main reasons the Supreme Court overturned the Texas abortion law in Roe was that the exception for "saving the life of the mother" was unconstitutionally vague. If abortion is murder, what constitutes self-defense? Must the woman be in actual danger of dying if she carries the child to term, and how sure of this must her doctors be for an abortion to be legally permissible...
Nunnally has officially resigned but will hold his office at Dartmouth until the actual move to Harvard...
...this potential leverage does not necessarily translate into real gains in political clout or actual enforcement--a gap that threatens to turn the target communities into experimental guinea pigs, instead of the puzzle pieces that the Coalition wants to eventually fit into an overall plan. Given that the Coalition could persuade communities to restrict or ban handguns, they will be most valuable as test cases, both for the purposes of the activists, and for the understanding of the handgun problems. The results of such piecemeal bans may not support the goals of control advocates, but could shed light...
...Sharon sat on a front bench, his wife Lili with him, Judge Sofaer began the trial by instructing the six-person jury on the legal definition of libel. Drawing upon U.S. Supreme Court rulings on what a public figure must show to prove "actual malice," Sofaer said Sharon's lawyers must demonstrate not only that the TIME paragraph was "false and defamatory" but that the magazine published it with "conscious awareness of falsity or with serious doubts as to the truth...