Word: anties
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...running the convention so tightly, however, the organizers left themselves open to charges of rigging. Some of the 400 antiabortion, anti-ERA delegates complained, with a degree of justice, that they had not been given enough chance to challenge or debate the many resolutions that came speeding by. Debate could be shut off by a simple majority vote, and since the pro-plan forces had a clear majority, they could stop debate any time they wanted?and many times they...
After the vote favoring abortion, angry pro-family delegates staged a demonstration and held aloft giant color photographs of aborted fetuses. Shaking and weeping, one anti-abortion woman cried: "I never thought they would come to this. It's murder!" Said another: "It will be old people next...
...during my freshman year of high school, I was impressed. Posters elbowed each other out of the way for viewing space on the jammed notice boards. People strode through the streets purposefully, hurrying off, I presumed, to hear deposed European heads of state, having just left the seminar with anti-war activists who were on the cover of Time last month. Students in the 'estaurants kept up with the latest intellectual trends by reading ponderous tomes over late morning coffee...
...organization also argues that excessive amounts of fluoride in drinking water may be carcinogenic. Dyer cited a 1975 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, science director of the National Health Federation (NHF), another anti-fluoridation group, based in California. That study indicated that during a 20-year period cancer death rates in ten large fluoridated cities surpassed those in comparably sized non-fluoridated cities...
Despite their opposition to fluoridation because of alleged "side effects," anti-fluoridationists reluctantly admit that the process does have some beneficial effect on teeth. "Fluoridation does delay a few cavities in children," Dyer says...