Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks at Cliffs Notes can't seem to take a joke. Last week the purveyor of the plot summaries so dear to lazy students won a court battle to prevent Doubleday from distributing Spy Notes, a Spy magazine parody...
...movement may be getting a jolt from a hostile Supreme Court, whose ruling in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
With one of feminism's most cherished gains in danger, the ranks of women's organizations are swelling. In the months since the Supreme Court decided that it would hear the Webster case, the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League each signed up 50,000 new members. NARAL added $1 million to its coffers in July alone. NOW President Molly Yard vows to make every politician confront the question "Are you for the right of a woman to control her reproductive life?" Says political analyst William Schneider: "In abortion the women's movement...
...most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception of Syria's Hafez Assad, whom Bush does not trust...
...between excessive intervention in the internal affairs of foreign nations and its legitimate right, some might say duty, to preserve the lives and interests of Americans abroad. The lives of American citizens, in addition to Carter-esque loss of face, are a terrible price to pay in order to court the good-will of factions showing precious little of it themselves...