Word: cites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another point, in an effort to be more specific about U.S. expenditures for covert activities in Chile, Ford claimed that Allende had taken steps to muzzle opposition parties and press, although it was already known that the single incident which the administration could cite was the case of the newspaper, "El Mercurio," shut down for one day and then reopened by court order...
...beginning, Ford was just a quiet minority leader from Michigan, defending a Republican administration's positions competently if not outstandingly, taking a conservative but far from unusual position on labor and civil rights issues, and only rarely entering a public spotlight. The Almanac of American Politics might cite the consummate political skill with which he led the fight to keep Congress from stopping the bombing of Cambodia. But newspapers gave little attention to such day-to-day details, preferring to focus on the more startling although less murderous activities of the Committee to Re-elect the President...
Along this line, Chayet says, the defense may cite the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in January 1973 and also a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding of July 1974 in Doe v. Doe. The Supreme Court's "abortion decision" asserted that a woman has the right of privacy to terminate a pregnancy with the approval of a physician. The majority opinion in the latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission...
...Harvard continued to cite financial difficulties as the obstacle to equal admissions. This reasoning, advocates of one-to-one admissions argue, is either circular or false. Figures from other colleges suggest that increased coeducation--even with decreased male enrollment--has not diminished alumni contributions. (And equal admissions proponents have consistently opposed an increase in the size of the college...