Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said, "Hopefully they would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal medical procedure, life and conception would not even begin...
...signed by Dukakis will require employers to pay for health insurance, and the Governor has proposed a similar program on a national scale. The proposal is regressive, since the added costs threaten marginal businesses and might put the lowest-paid workers back on the street. Yet firms unable to bear the full brunt of expanded health benefits might participate in insurance pools, phase in their contributions and get some Government help. A larger difficulty is that while the Dukakis plan would offer relief to uninsured workers and their dependents -- about 22 million people -- it does nothing for the 15 million...
Manchester ends his narrative in June 1940, when even Chamberlain had to admit his error, when France had fallen and the new Prime Minister, Churchill, addressed his imperiled country with an eloquence that was an army in itself. "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour...
...think he should consider that we, also, are people. I think [Bush] thinks of us as a big bear," said one Soviet student...
...response, Jeffrey Clarke '90, a Slavic Studies concentrator, questioned the wisdom of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, suggesting that it provided fodder for the "big bear" image. "That was a mistake--a bad move," one Soviet panel member said...