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...Eastern Europe, population experts estimate that 23 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Poland, 44 per cent are aborted in Bulgaria, and 60 per cent are aborted in Hungary and the Soviet Union. Latin America, China, and Japan rely very heavily on legal or illegal abortion to avert unwanted births. In all these countries, abortion is demographically significant...
...many crops, and with good reason: demand for U.S. grains is increasing faster than farmers can harvest their fields. In July the U.S. made a billion-dollar deal to supply Russia with wheat and other crops. Then China bought wheat from the U.S.; now India needs wheat to avert a potential famine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipated bumper crops this year-but then the rains came. Since September, the beginning of the Midwest's harvest season, unprecedentedly heavy rains and freezing temperatures have repeatedly mired farmers' machinery in axle-deep mud. "Parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...
Although we must condemn Judge Garrity for failing to avert this aberration of justice. We hold in contempt those government agents who hold in contempt those government agents who spent the past 16 months in relentless drive to clog the free flow of information...
...going to get wicked faced because the Big Green Indians are going to beat the Bejesus out of Princeton. The Princeton-Dartmouth game usually decided the Ivy League championship in the sixties, but now it just means a big night for the Green Mountain. The Tiger's defense will avert a massacre, Dartmouth...
Lehmbruck was a finely responsive modeler, but he rarely contrived to give his nudes the unabashed, vigorous monumentality of Maillol's. Qualified by unease, bowed down by shame, indecision or guilt, they avert their gaze and seem on the point of flight or evaporation. The result was a fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants...