Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason pro-choice activists call themselves "pro-choice" and not "pro-abortion" is to highlight the fact that they are fighting to protect women in all areas of reproductive decision-making. The pro-choice stance tries to protect women not only from unwanted pregnancy, but also from unwanted abortion and unwanted sterilization...
...specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they won't tell you." Pack insisted that he had knowledgeable sources for his numbers. A ^ Washingtonian editor, however, acknowledged that such stories are "ball-park estimates...
That exploratory phone call, of course, is no guarantee of accuracy. New York magazine inquired whether I had reviewed a manuscript for possible serialization in TIME. Yes, I had; no, we wouldn't. But the item relating this routine transaction attributed a direct quote to me ostensibly delivered to "colleagues." The remark, never uttered, was not checked either with me or with the editor to whom I had reported. Later, the New York Times Book Review picked up the unfounded quote. The news section of the same Sunday edition carried an editors' note pointing out that the original gossip-page...
...tricky thing about pinning down opponents of randomization is that they tend to do what lawyers call "arguing by alternative." It's like defending a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "The fender isn't dented, and if it is, my client didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender was dented before he stole...
Runnerup: "That was one of the single most bizarre calls I've ever seen. He called offensive clamping, which has never been called in the history of water polo. It's a defensive call. As far as I'm concerned, we won this game in regulation."--Harvard water polo Coach Chris Hafferty after another highly-questionable call helped Brown tie last Sunday's game against the Crimson and send it into overtime. The Bruins eventually...