Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost nonexistent and the Secretary's power was not challenged within the White House. Haig virtually dismissed the importance of the NSC staff in policy formulation because it is composed of people who are not subject to Senate confirmation. U.S. foreign policy, argued Haig, must bear the "imprimatur" of officials who have "undergone the confirmation process and who traditionally the American people have held responsible under that process...
...seek abortions, there are very practical reasons. The changing mores that some social conservatives lament have freed many women from what the pro-choice advocates call a "barefoot and pregnant" domestic role. For a career woman, or a young student working to enter the job market, being forced to bear an unwanted child, and perhaps deciding to accept an undesired marriage, will drastically alter her life forever. For poorer women or-in these times of high inflation-many middle-class women, the burden of an extra child is something they and their entire family may well find destructive. The right...
California. The state supreme court ruled two weeks ago that California must pay for welfare abortions because the state constitution explicitly guarantees the right of privacy. Said the court: "The decision whether to bear a child or to have an abortion is so private and so intimate that each woman in this state-rich or poor-is guaranteed the constitutional right to make that decision as an individual." Said Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton: "This continues California's role as a national leader in this area...
...bowels. But much of the collection reads like the scoreboard of a ferocious competitor. "The 227 wounds I got from the trench mortar didn't hurt a bit at the time," he writes his parents in 1918. "We've killed 3 big bull elk-2 bucks-2 bear-an eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa. Off Key West and Cuba, tons of tarpon, swordfish and sharks...
...allows its citizens to carry deadly weapons with impunity--this is a society that begs for violence. Perhaps the shock of Monday's gunshots will start to convince Americans of all political persuasions that the time has come to trade force for reason, violence for peace, the right to bear arms for gun control. If it doesn't, the list of men and ideas felled by bullets will only grow...