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...indictments have increased support for bills before the Massachusetts legislature that would require physicians to try to extend the lives of even unviable fetuses and forbid experiments like the ones for which the doctors were indicted. The case has also worked a hardship on Boston's poor. Despite its limitations, overworked B.C.H. has been one of the few places in the city where those who could not afford to pay could end unwanted pregnancies. As a result of the indictments, the hospital has forbidden abortions except in medical and psychiatric emergencies...
...senseless busing of innocent little children for the purpose of achieving racial balance. The proposed constitutional amendment introduced on January 23, 1973, by Senator Allen (D-Ala.) and me will put an end to the judicial and bureaucratic tyranny which has imposed this terrible hardship on millions of our schoolchildren and their parents...
Compared with the grand larceny in some other countries, inflation has rarely been more than a pesky pickpocket in the U.S. Rising prices filched a few pennies at a time from wages and profits and prompted endless grousing, but for a majority of Americans, caused no real hardship; incomes usually went up faster. So, nothing in recent history has prepared the nation for the shock of what is happening today: a double-digit inflation that raises unsettling visions among many Americans of the price spirals in South America or Indonesia...
Chance Pairing. Depression hardship and anemic science grades ended Huntley's early hopes of becoming a doctor, but a rich baritone voice and a penchant for oratory led him to his lifetime work...
Some parents will welcome the rate shift as an excuse to get their long-winded kids off the phone (the alternative would be to go broke). For others, how ever, the change would be a hardship...