Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake is a woman's right to control her own body, a woman's right to privacy"--this powerful argument forms the moral and legal plank of the pro-choice platform. Indeed, given the way that pro-choicers have been able to frame the debate, to oppose abortion, for many people, means that one is thus anti-liberty and privacy and for the imposition of others' views on women...
...this were not the case, there would be no liberal objection to abortion. It would genuinely only be a question of a woman's right to privacy and to control over her own body. However, it is much more than this...
...deterred, police in Colorado this month will begin testing a new Star Wars-type speed trap that uses laser light to spot perpetrators. International Measurement & Control, the firm that developed the new device, claims its laser beams are not only invisible to radar detectors but unaffected by stealthy shields as well. Given the speedy pace of change, can antilaser systems be far behind...
Second Trips Through the Revolving Door Are Dangerous. Tower left the arms- control talks in Geneva in 1986 with the clear sense that after 25 years in public office, it was now time to get rich. With this sense of entitlement, he promptly lined up more than $750,000 in consulting work with six leading defense contractors. To believe Tower, he provided them with little more than the "enlightened judgment" they could just as easily get from reading the papers and dropping by a few academic think tanks. If true, it appears that Tower was vastly overpaid for his services...
...Daley will have to overcome another in the general election on April 4 to reclaim his father's office. If he does, Chicago would become the third major city (after Cleveland and Charlotte, N.C.) in which the mayor's office, once won by a black, has reverted to white control...