Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal appeal technique used on the back cover contains an account of one woman's experience of an abortion, with the requisite bold type and exclamation points, a style used more in diet advertisements than in journalism. The same woman who now counsels "youth groups and students about abstinence" had tried to get pregnant again after her own abortion. Nowhere in the story is there evidence of planning a family or creating a home...
...proposal might have greater appeal if the Cambridge council would also accept "below market wages." --Adam Kadmon...
...Regional primaries have inherent limitations," he says. "They can lead to strong regional candidates that may not have national appeal...
...their sense of isolation grew worse, Saddam's daughters set up a campaign of their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...
...years the Republican Party has tried to appeal to discontented white voters by assuring them that their troubles are caused by abortion on demand or gay marriage or immigrants or federal bureaucrats or, most of all, colored folks getting all the breaks...