Word: chafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such legislation will not be passed tomorrow. No society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of jecency. But like our forefathers, we have no other options. When and if it becomes common to see friends die, when the fear our ancestors felt returns, our attitude will change...
...some experimental treatment that will help the embryo itself. Some states-Minnesota, for; example-prescribe that any experimentation must be known to be harmless. A number of authorities also believe that experimentation should be limited to the first 14 days after fertilization. There are scientists, however, who chafe at such restrictions on their research...
...cordial hostility, few relationships rival the unstable truce between Washington reporters, who chafe at having news doled out by the teaspoonful, and presidential press secretaries, who often view journalists as carping nihilists incapable of admitting they are wrong...
...Post's reaction underscored the dilemma of the Avis of wire services: U.P.I, cannot outstrip the dominant A.P. except by showing enterprise on stories; yet when it does, clients chafe that its ambitions may lead to carelessness with facts. Post Foreign Editor Karen DeYoung said that "it made no difference" that the assertive report came from U.P.I, rather than A.P. Still, quite a few news executives share the judgment of William Greer, associate news editor of the Miami Herald: "U.P.I, has had a reputation for shooting from the hip." Adds Greer: "They have done a good job the past...
...clashing images, this zone of hay and Harvard graduates, of pigs and Porsches, of pancake breakfasts and imported cheeses? This is ruburbia, a geographical mezzanine between the rural and the suburban. Ruburbs are small country towns barely within commuting distance of city centers, where agrarian values rub-and sometimes chafe- elbows with middle-class attitudes. They are tucked away in numerous places across the American landscape, from the sun-dried valleys east of Los Angeles to the wooded hills west of Boston. Once the ruburbs were self-contained farming communities, but the prohibitively pricey real estate of both city apartments...