Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Griswold said that in asking for justification, he was playing devil's advocate and trying to get justification for his own beliefs that the women intended to become lawyers...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...
...constituent assembly. Wild cards in the electoral deck will be the 3 million colored, or mixed race, voters and the 1 million Asians. Although both groups suffered under apartheid, their conservative outlook is working in De Klerk's favor. Says Magda Bellwood, a Cape Town receptionist: "Better the devil you know than the devil...
...seems like a reasonably minimum set of standards. It non-union contractors can do these and can still outbid unions, then they're not the devil. I would prefer to see everything union, but I would like to see standards," says Ehrlich...
...eyes even of some who disagree with his methods, Kevorkian has become the devil that doctors deserve. Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Biomedical Ethics, puts it succinctly. "I'll give him this," he says. "He tells us exactly where the health- care system stinks." Even some doctors reluctantly agree. "A significant percent of the American public sees Kevorkian as a reasonable alternative to modern medicine," says professor George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine. "He's a total indictment of the way we treat dying patients in hospitals and at home...