Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears." Enjoying the prerogatives of the elder statesman, former President Gerald Ford expressed the hope that Begin's successor would bring about "a bit more flexibility than has been exhibited by the Israeli government in the past." But even if Shamir's diplomatic experience makes him easier to deal with than the irascible Begin, U.S. officials do not expect him to be more flexible than his predecessors on the main area of dispute with the U.S.: the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the home of some 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs. Shamir, said a Western...
...power it doesn't deserve. It has to be stripped of that power." There are now all kinds of places to turn to. Rape treatment clinics, shelters for battered wives, and centers for abused children have sprung up across the country. Legal procedures appear to have made prosecution easier. The problems are coming out of the closet in surprising places: in the small Plains city of Salina (pop. 42,600), the Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas gets around 100 "crisis calls" a month...
...many states to place a priority on helping families end the abuse so they can remain together. When the abusive situation in a home seems unlikely to change permanently, authorities often argue over who should leave the household: the offending adult or the victimized child. Since it is easier under most state laws to remove the child than force a parent to leave, that is how the problem is most often resolved...
...thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door by 1:30 p.m. "This is much easier than going to a hospital," says Logan, a registered nurse. "You're in and out in a couple of hours. It's more like a doctor's office...
...pieces of evidence in the process of building a case against Defendants Judith Clark, 33, David Gilbert, 39, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36. In federal court, the four-month trial of the six defendants involved more than 100 witnesses. To be sure, the presentation of both cases was made easier by the refusal of some defendants to offer a standard defense. The three Goshen suspects early on pronounced the trial "illegitimate," because they consider themselves to be "freedom fighters" and "prisoners of war." They declined to be represented by lawyers and chose to sit out most of the trial...