Word: demanding
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...social conservative. She wants a return to "traditional family values," and she opposes Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand. She wants a candidate who will do more than pay lip service to the Pro-Life movement, as President Reagan has done...
...begin to withdraw. Fearing that the mujahedin may be left exposed to attack by the Soviets, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared last month that the Soviet withdrawal must be "front-end loaded," meaning that large numbers of troops must leave early on. Gorbachev appeared to accept that demand last week. But U.S. officials still fear that the Soviets might wait until the last minute to pull out 20,000 men in elite units that do most of the fighting...
...Waldheim, meanwhile, showed no sign of quitting. Bolstered by polls showing that most Austrians want him to stay in office, Waldheim privately threatened to dissolve the government -- one of his few real powers -- unless it rejected the document. The Socialists refused the demand, but Vice Chancellor Alois Mock, leader of the People's Party, charged that the panel had overstepped its mandate by passing moral judgments. The Cabinet finally issued a bland statement noting that Panel Chairman Hans-Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, acknowledged that his group had found "no personal guilty behavior nor participation in war crimes...
...increase in physician visits by the elderly, a 200% rise in days of hospital care, a 280% growth in the number of nursing-home residents. Between now and the year 2000, a new 220-bed nursing home will have to be opened every day just to keep even with demand. Without a change in the present system, pension and health-care costs will account for more than 60% of the federal budget...
With Tom's childhood set as a backdrop, the story begins with Tom emasculated and insecure, his marriage falling apart. When his children demand to know why their father always cooks dinner, Tom says to his wife, "I told you, Sallie...if you raise children in the South, you produce Southerners. And a Southerner is one of God's natural fools...