Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear the knowledge could create many moral and ethical problems. Does genetic testing constitute an invasion of privacy, for example, and could it lead to more abortions and to discrimination against the "genetically unfit"? Should someone destined to be stricken with a deadly genetic disease be told about his fate, especially if no cure is yet available? Does it demean humans to have the very essence of their lives reduced to strings of letters in a computer data bank? Should gene therapy be used only for treating disease, or also for "improving" a person's genetic legacy...
...majority opinion in the original Roe decision, predicts that Roe will likely "go down the drain this term." Even if it doesn't, Blackmun and his liberal brethren, Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, are teetering on the brink of retirement. Another Republican-appointed justice would seal Roe's fate...
...Salem, Mass., prison, Koskotas has finally decided to talk. His chief motivation, he explains, is a fear that once extradited to Greece he will disappear behind bars -- or be murdered and declared a suicide and thus be unable to present his own version of what happened. He figures his fate in Greece will be worse if Papandreou remains in power; so his motive for speaking may also be to wound the government...
Heavy drinkers have been a continuing specter in American public life. Luckily, there are no episodes in which the Republic's fate was threatened by drunkenness. Our standards have gone up, slowly the first 180 years, dramatically the past 20. Off the job or on, a political boozer is apt to be a loser. That's not to say teetotaling assures success...
...Senate decides the nominee's fate, confusion mounts over where to draw the line in the conduct of public officials. -- Facing likely defeat on Tower, the White House attacks the motives of his Democratic foes. -- Chicago's black mayor is defeated by Dick Daley's son, who may soon become hizzoner, and Jesse Jackson abandons his party...