Word: gag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blunt and unambiguous is sex. On their first date, Jack and Wally kiss briefly, then she suddenly blurts out, "Would you like to have sex?" They proceed to debate the possibility with all the emotional involvement of a discussion of tax policy on Wall Street Week. There are gag lines that must have had the show's writers in stitches ("Your condom or mine?"), but the whole encounter is contrived and phony, like too much of the show...
...under gag order from me," Barcus said."This is really dangerous territory at the moment[for Holena] ... It takes a lot of time to sortout the proper jurisdiction...
...PARTIAL lifting of the gag rule might seem like a significant step. The problem is that it does not go far enough. Many of the limitations on the kind of medical treatment a doctor can advise in a federal clinic are still in place...
...modifying the gag rule, the President aimed not to offer better medical care to pregnant women, but to secure more votes...
BUSH'S MODIFICATION of the gag rule does not substantially change it. Pregnant women are still in a vulnerable position when they have to go to federally funded clinics to ask for medical advice. Bush's motive in changing the gag rule was not to offer better medical care to these women. His only aim was to secure more votes...