Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage. Now, however, Greece's time-honored system of mandatory dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft law doing away with dowries has been written-but Parliament is less than anxious to consider it. Predictably, it is the male lawmakers who most object to allowing women more latitude in governing their own affairs...
...this time the alternative has new significance. It is the work of a new dean, who is betting that everyone is stick and tired of discussing the various living arrangements and anxious to get to the more fruitful and--unlike the current debate--educational review of undergraduate education...
...back in uniform at practice tomorrow," he said. "My enthusiasm has returned and I'm anxious to get started playing again...
...would give him control of the two posts that were the source of Daley's power. Dunne's suggestion came as a shock to many party regulars, who doubt that Daley's brand of one-man rule can be per-petuated-and who are, in fact, anxious to put the party and the mayoralty in separate hands. But the consolidation could happen, as anything can happen, in the brier patch of Chicago politics, where even in death the late mayor still casts a giant shadow...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to acquit Kenneth C. Edelin is important for the support it gives to a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for manslaughter following an abortion he performed on October 3, 1973 was the triumph of a prosecutor anxious to limit the right to an abortion in this country. In finding insufficient evidence to prove any "wanton" or "reckless" conduct to a viable human being, the Court has reasserted its faith in doctors' good medical judgments in performing abortions and in the rights of patients...