Word: established
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working close to power lines. A study in California found that pregnant women who worked on video-display terminals for 20 hours or more a week had twice the risk of miscarrying as other clerical workers. Such findings are suggestive, but the researchers admit that their work does not establish a direct cause-effect relationship...
RATHER than reproduce a legislative structure for legal abortion, the Court--led by the unwillingness of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to overturn Roe--established a political forum within which the forces on both sides of the issue can mobilize and establish clearly the aspects of abortion laws that Americans support...
...decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Applying that standard with chilly mathematical precision, Scalia calculated that of the 37 states now permitting capital punishment, only twelve prohibit a death sentence for offenders under 18, and three others forbid it for those under 17. "This does not establish the degree of national consensus this Court has previously thought sufficient to label a particular punishment cruel and unusual," he concluded...
Another section requiring federal standards for child-care services was eased in order to allow the states to establish their own guidelines, thereby winning the endorsement of the National Governors' Association...
...Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and the archconservative Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. Hatch has been vilified as a traitor by conservatives for supporting the bill, which Senate Republican leader Bob Dole denounces as a "money-eating bureaucratic sinkhole." He attacks ABC provisions that would encourage state governments to establish standards for day-care centers as an unwarranted intrusion by Washington. Hatch counters by insisting that conservatives should be as responsive as liberals to the needs of families. Says he: "Should we continue to ignore the problem just because some on the far right have their heads in the sand...