Word: die
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...lifers, however, are not unconcerned about women's lives. Like feminist pro-life groups, they realize that the legalization of abortion does little to decrease the number of women who die from abortions. Government regulations currently do not require abortion providers to report deaths from abortion...
While drinking is no longer common during Harvard's games, some traditions die hard...
...addition to our formal studies, we were enrolled in a permanent, floating, teacherless seminar on Vietnam. Like many of our contemporaries, we felt that the war was profoundly wrong. Many of us had to decide what to do if we were ordered by our government to fight, kill, perhaps die for a cause we did not believe in. We talked about that more than anything else among ourselves...
...dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis he once affected. But his message is still anti- foreign, anti-European integration and especially anti-immigrant. Under the slogan "France for the French," Le Pen has been drawing votes from an assortment of anachronistic cranks, former Nazi collaborators, die-hard repatriates from Algeria and disappointed Communists. Lately, they have been joined by a growing number of embittered citizens who are out of work or have to share their neighborhoods with Arab or African immigrants and who find the newcomers' skin color, religion, dress, music, food and customs...
...most uptight and insular postings. He frequently eats in the staff cafeteria, and at a recent meeting lectured the staff on the dangers of workaholism, urging them to try to spend more time with their families. Afterward a woman approached in tears to thank him. Old State Department ways die hard, however. For months Strauss tried to reverse the department's ban on hiring Russians for menial embassy tasks, but U.S. security officers insisted that for every two Russian workers there had to be one American "watcher." Says Strauss: "That didn't make any damn sense...