Word: beare
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...General Assembly than a civil trial, as San Francisco's Nourse Auditorium last week became the largest courtroom in memory. Dozens of lawyers at 28 counsel tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos manufacturers--the largest being the Manville Corp.--are suing...
According to City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, a remodeled Mount Auburn Hospital may draw paying patients from Cambridge City Hospital, which needs these people to offset the debt it incurs by serving poor, non-paying residents. Cambridge taxpayers would bear the burden of this increased debt, added Duehay, a member of the Mount Auburn Taxpayers Association...
...other groups, some deserving, others not. But it is the President's intentions that are in doubt. This week's veto was a token gesture of fiscal sobriety, another in a long series of instances where the President has found a specific and relatively weak group to bear the burden of his deficit. It's not that we object to his efforts to sort out government finances, it's that he's pursuing his objectives in an inequitable manner. And for as long as he refuses to prescribe at least one of the two remedies indispensable to curing deficit ills...
Women will never be able to control their lives in our society until they can decide when and if they will bear children. This knowledge drove hundreds of thousands--possibly millions--of women to seek desperate, dangerous illegal abortions before the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. Each year thousands of women, a disproportionate number of them poor and minority, were killed or mutilated by "back-alley" abortionists and self-induced abortions performed with coathangers and knitting needles. As Judy Goldsmith pointed out, those who lived before 1973 remember that the screams of women were not silent. Kim Ladin...
FOOTNOTE: *Founded and funded by John M. Templeton, U.S. Presbyterian layman and president of the mutual funds that bear his name...