Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With one of feminism's most cherished gains in danger, the ranks of women's organizations are swelling. In the months since the Supreme Court decided that it would hear the Webster case, the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League each signed up 50,000 new members. NARAL added $1 million to its coffers in July alone. NOW President Molly Yard vows to make every politician confront the question "Are you for the right of a woman to control her reproductive life?" Says political analyst William Schneider: "In abortion the women's movement...
...fact the media, that watchdog of democracy, has been sniffing around the White House so often now that it already has uncovered several Bush Administration scandals that it is just waiting to unload on an unsuspecting public. For those of you who can't wait to hear it from Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer on the new "Primetime Live," here are some of the scandals that will allow President Bush to take his true place among the recent set of Republican chief executives...
More thoughtful assessment: Yeah, she's right, it's awful, I don't want to hear about...
...town, we're much more careful, and we schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise would be the case.' He proceeded to sketch out a formula for cutting yourself off from any unplanned encounter." And the unplanned encounter, Whyte concludes, is one of the joys of urban life: "You hear the point you didn't expect to hear...
...countrymen, Takako Doi is clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make...