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...defend as the beginning of human life. Says Dr. Maurice J. Mahoney of the Yale University School of Medicine: "For me, humanness requires that some process of development has taken place which gives the embryo a human form, so that it has a nervous system, a heart and circulatory apparatus, and indications of human shape...
...only relief in a Gordon novel is her wonderful sense of humor: "She was incapable of deceit, not through any strength of character, but because she lacked the intellectual apparatus either to invent or sustain...
...conservative policies emerge more as image-creating, to influence the nation's psychology, than concrete actions to improve the economic situation. This is not surprising since they have a tundamentally destructive intent--to dismantle the existing fiscal apparatus and consequently unleash the forces of private enterprise which the administration hopes will increase productivity and ultimately reduce inflation. Stockman's budget slashes and the plans for tax cuts, however, ignore the psychological aspects that affect productivity in the economy. Efficiency is more a matter of worker's satisfaction and their effectiveness than the tax and interest rate schedules faced by corporate...
...sixth technician discovered the mishap and called a security guard, who donned a breathing apparatus that enabled him to drag the five from the compartment. An ambulance speeding to pad 39-A reportedly was delayed by security...
...angrily. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, who had been trying to stave off strikes and work stoppages elsewhere, rushed to Bydgoszcz to comfort the injured and demand retribution against the police. Addressing an overflow meeting of outraged unionists, Walesa alternately stirred his listeners with attacks on the Communist apparatus and urged them not to react too rashly. "Those bandits and sadists from the security apparatus must be dismissed," he insisted. Walesa warned that, if necessary, the union could bring the entire country to a standstill in half an hour. To prove his point, union members in Bydgoszcz...