Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the consent of parents -to receive abortions at state expense during the first 90 days of pregnancy. Currently, there are about 200,000 such legal operations every year, and the rate is climbing; there are also an estimated 600,000 illegal abortions annually, mostly because many approved clinics bow to church opposition and refuse to perform the operations. Voters also overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to make the 1978 abortion law even more liberal...
...race. Harvard finished third behind Princeton and Yale--the first time since 1965 that they weren't in first. "It was an extremely aggressive race and Yale just refused to quit." bow seat Fred Geyer said yesterday...
...pols like our own Tip O'Neill--demand the quick departure of the British. They can begin writing letters a la Amnesty International to the British, demanding that they grant Irish prisoners normal legal freedoms accorded to prisoners of war. And they can insist that no American leaders ever bow and scrape again to Prince Charles or any other product of regal inbreeding. The ultimate solution to the crisis is a unification of Ireland under Irish rule, but in the meantime, there are plenty of ways to better the lives of Northern Ireland's Catholics, and they should be urged...
...craft without national markings. A boat outside American waters that is flying a foreign flag can be legally boarded only with the agreement of the boat's own government. In September 1980 the Guard began a resolute new enforcement policy. "The traditional warning shot across the bow never stopped anyone because that was all we could do," says a Coast Guard spokesman. Under today's policy, "if a ship does not heed our warning to stop, our ships can open up with disabling fire. We mean business, and the druggies know...
...moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across his chest was the purple sash that identified him as an Ingenue Escort. He was grinning at their friends, who were applauding as she and he descended the steps to Moon River, played by the dance - band on the stage...