Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Afterward, when their daughter was buried and their hearts broken, the Bells could see everything clearly. Until then, they had not thought about their teenager's getting pregnant or what they would do if she did. They did not know that there was any such thing as a parental-consent...
...days, and there she was told of the Indiana law. No one knows what happened between that moment and her death two months later. When the Bells went through Becky's purse after she died, they found telephone numbers of abortion clinics in Kentucky, which did not require parental consent. "Becky just happened to live in the wrong state," says her father...
...years, the Corporation has never before appointed a formal committee to search for a University president, and it was unclear yesterday exactly what role the committee would play in the search process. The Corporation must make the final selection for president, but it must do so with the consent of the Board of Overseers...
...provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism -- may be to garner the consent of the governed. Among the countries that have taken tentative steps toward such reforms...
Landsbergis said he would "carefully study" the letter, but he could hardly fail to read it as support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's demands that the Baltic republic consent to an orderly secession by Moscow's rules. Landsbergis had already been stung by George Bush's decision not to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union -- a decision the Lithuanian leader likened to the appeasement of Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference. The comparison was farfetched, since Bush was counseling Lithuania to take a less confrontational course toward independence, not to surrender to a predatory totalitarian...