Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tucker, 50 years old, blustery and heavyset, mans the front lines of America's abortion wars. In his Cadillac, usually littered with fast-food wrappers, he travels hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture...
Begala and others in the White House argue that a "signature" program like health-care reform must take priority over the trade agreement. This thinking happens to mesh with arguments set forth in a letter sent to Clinton last week by 103 Democrats who oppose NAFTA. Clinton isn't ready to postpone NAFTA indefinitely, but he agrees with Begala that health care must come first. If delay is indeed the Administration's tactic of choice, it would explain why Bill Daley of Chicago, the President's leading candidate to shepherd NAFTA through Congress, told at least one key House member...
...finally, what is Rising Sun about but the careless ways in which cultural heritages and institutions are bartered in the international marketplace and the confusions that arise from this traffic? Just about everything that's worth thinking about in Michael Crichton's novel is wittily and efficiently set forth in this sequence...
Clinton announced last week that he would put forth a compromise proposal entitled "don't ask, don't tell," in which military recruits would not be questioned about sexual orientation but could be discharged for "homosexual conduct...
...Epps said the essays do not put forth any agenda and that he wants faculty members of various political persuasions to lead the discussions. At the same time, the dean acknowledges that the essays reflect his view that racial separatism is extremely damaging to the college community...