Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sachs has prosecuted several legislators during his public career and recently gained attention for his defense of pediatrician Elizabeth Morgan, who went to jail for two years rather than allow her daughter to visit her allegedly abusive husband...
...really letting the reformers down. But a destabilized Eastern Europe carries dangers for the West as well as for us. What we need is an influx of working capital and the economic freedom of movement that would allow Hungary to participate in the marketplaces of the European Community...
Abroad, Bush tends to turn Teddy Roosevelt's famous dictum on its head by speaking loudly and carrying a small stick. He did offer important new proposals on conventional-force reductions in Europe. Otherwise, he has allowed the Kremlin to trump him with a variety of strategic-arms offers, while he nonchalantly dusted off Dwight Eisenhower's "Open Skies" plan (to allow each superpower overflight inspections of the other's territory) and suggested a reduction in chemical weapons that Congress had long since ordered him to make. His offer of economic assistance to Poland and Hungary, as they attempt...
...enough Congressmen read the political winds to hand right-to-lifers another reversal on the very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...
...their zealousness, Congress went a little too far. Parts of the law were left intentionally vague to allow prosecutors free reign in their efforts to nail organized crime kingpins. There was also the valid worry that a law that singled out Italian-run organized crime would be unconstitutional...