Word: healthly
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...clinic or hospital rather than at home. To prevent casual use, the French have made it no less expensive than a surgical abortion (cost: upwards of $130). The Netherlands and England are considering approval of RU 486. Meanwhile, Roussel Uclaf, its manufacturer, has contracted with the World Health Organization to distribute the pill at low cost in developing countries...
Brown's Undergraduate Council voted "to protect the student, regardless of his or her choice in the event of a strike," according to the Brown Daily Herald. The main contract issue there focuses on health care...
Dukakis repetitively stresses the need to make tough choices on defense programs, such as slashing funds for the MX missile and the Strategic Defense Initiative. And he proposes a new government/business partnership in which the government will require private businesses to provide health insurance for every employee. In doing so he has sought to distance himself as much from Walter Mondale's campaign--in which the former vice president promised more taxes and economic concessions to virtually every special interest group under the sun--as from Reagan...
Bush has spoken about federal efforts to aid working mothers by giving them tax breaks for day care. He has discussed efforts to simulate Dukakis' universal health care plan with a plan of his own to give the middle class the opportunity to "buy into" medicare. And he has seemingly backed down on Reagan's committment to go ahead full throttle with both research and deployment of SDI. In fact, both candidates have adopted strikingly similar positions on SDI which stress research, with deployment contingent upon further scientific developments...
...resistant varieties of grain and cattle will help these agricultural problems. The water problems, however, will only be corrected when commercial users in dry areas start paying the real price for their share of a precious public resource. In areas where clean water is hard to find, the public health must clearly have priority in water rationing. It is just this kind of policy decision that requires leadership and direction at the federal level...