Word: bernard
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...Reconciliation is absolutely impossible," said Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK, to the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite on Saturday...
...efforts to increase oil output, led by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, have taken the form of persuasion rather than threat. "The reason is that in the U.S.'s relationship with a number of oil-producing countries, economics takes a backseat to politics," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. After all, OPEC and its allies are engaging in price-fixing that contravenes World Trade Organization rules, but there's been no rush by Washington to file suit. "Last year the administration was prepared to fight a trade war with Europe over bananas," says Baumohl, "but nobody's challenged OPEC...
...Bernard N. Nathanson, a founding member of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) who later declared his opposition to abortion, decried the use of violence...
...rising at an unsustainable pace, making it perhaps the most serious problem facing the U.S. economy today," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "When America's foreign debt surges, foreigners are forced to hold more dollars. If they begin to dump those for fear of being overexposed, that would drive down the value of the dollar and make imports even more expensive, which would bring inflation. But the only way to convince nervous creditors to hold on to dollars may end up being to raise interest rates in order to give them a better return on their holdings...
Another of Osborn's pseudo-arguments is the picture of a harsh pre-Roe world where back-alley abortions killed thousands each year. This claim is not simply a misrepresentation, but a consciously fabricated and propagated lie. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of National Abortion Rights Activist League, who now opposes abortion, stated, "We spoke of 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year [from back-alley abortions]. I confess that I knew the figures were totally false...It was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics." Actually...