Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackie Hymans did slap the ball into the Harvard goal with eight seconds remaining in the game, but the score didn't count because she was offside by five feet...
Against these powers, it seems impossible for ordinary people to tip the scales toward a view of rape that condemns rapists, not victims, just by protesting terms like "forcible rape." But ordinary people can count for a lot; after all, what influences our cultural views of rape if not everyday conversation...
...political leaders can count for a lot, too. That's why we need politicians who advocate abortion rights and public funding of abortions for all women, not just rape victims. No woman should be forced to have a child because she could not prove she was the victim of rape. No woman should be punished for the simple wish to protect the privacy of her own body--a privacy violated by rape, incestuous rape, and the restriction of abortion...
...nothing has been so devastating as crack. By one count there are 365,000 American babies who were exposed to drugs in the womb, two-thirds of them the victims of crack. Unlike earlier street drugs, crack has lured at least as many women as men, with corrosive effects on family life. "I used to have heroin mothers in court who could hold a family together," says Penny Ferrer, director of New York City's office of adoption services. "But crack mothers cannot." And even as new cases cascade into the child-welfare system, the number of foster parents...
...exposed to the risk of travel. We can be abundantly grateful for what we have: the first Velazquez exhibition ever held in the U.S., comprising more than a third of his total known output, including such great works of his maturity as the Prado's portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares on horseback and Queen Mariana and early ones like The Waterseller of Seville, painted when he was around 20, from London's Wellington Museum...