Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charging from $60 to $160 to make an appointment with a doctor, those services have eagerly advertised as far away as Miami Beach-in one case, by using a low-flying plane trailing a banner that read "Abortion Information," and a Manhattan phone number. New York State's Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz is so disturbed by such brokers that he is considering legislation either to put them out of business or to regulate them strictly...
Most people were happy. "Faculty Saves Everyone-Overruling Ad Board" was the banner CRIMSON headline. "The faculty's action was just," reasoned most people. It was justice tempered with mercy and reason. It was a moral decision. The students' actions had been weighed in light of the issues, in light of Vietnam...
...hysteria over the word "ecology" has submerged most real issues. Ecology is an idea of balance and not a political issue. Politics never seem to transcend the scale of banner-waving. "Ecology" does not comfortably fit a banner. Banners that are waved too hard tend to flutter at last in tatters...
Several prominent leaders of the Women's Lib movement have raised a new banner to battle under: bisexuality. Reacting to TIME'S story (Dec. 14) reporting Militant Kate Mil left's public admission that she is "bisexual," nine Women's Lib leaders held a press conference last week in New York City to announce common cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement...
...banner, emblazoned with the Cross of Lorraine, was drawn from the frescoes of history, and under it Charles de Gaulle waged a lifelong battle for the glory of France. Like the Christian crusaders who set out from medieval cathedrals, De Gaulle was on a journey that was both spiritual and temporal. He rescued his nation not once but twicethe first time from the shame of its capitulation to the Nazis in World War II, the second from its own quarreling factions. With the Fifth Republic, he gave France its first strong governmental framework since the days of Louis...