Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed to read the newspapers and thus learned that the C.D.U. had captured 43.9% of the vote in Berlin's local elections, thereby becoming the city's largest party. This was not enough, however, to elect Lorenz as mayor. Social Democratic Incumbent Klaus Schütz will keep the job, even though his party fell to second place -with 42.7% of the vote-because it can form a coalition with the Free Democrats, who garnered 7.2% of the vote...
...manipulation of whites and minorities alike. The School Committee is denounced, and two of 43 workshops do deal with matters relevant to local issues. In one Luis Fuentes discusses community control in New York schools, in the other the necessity of a coalition of blacks and whites to elect a pro-busing school committee member is stressed...
Edelin's conviction, which resulted from the abortion of a 20-or 22-week-old fetus, should have no direct effect on a woman's right to elect an abortion in the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy-within 14 weeks after the last menstrual period. Abortions at this stage are relatively simple, virtually bloodless procedures; they account for about 800,000 of the 900,000 legal abortions now performed annually in the U.S. Under the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, first-trimester abortions are essentially free of regulation but must be performed by a licensed physician...
...General Congregations over four centuries, it is only the seventh that has been assembled to deal with pressing problems without needing to elect a new Superior General...
...profane love that the 18th century painters of the féte champétre drew their inspiration. Rubens' outdoor courts of pagan love became Watteau's exquisite assemblies of lovers and Pierrots, at dusk, beside the Mozartian stone statue. This vision of a society of the elect united by love (which is equally the root of the paradise myth) continued through Watteau's colleagues and imitators, Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Pater - in The Dance (circa 1730) - Nicolas Lancret and the rest. Nor was it altogether lost with the French Revolution. Delacroix, whose painfully stiff early imitations...