Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each year more than 600,000 girls under 18 go to federally supported clinics to get contraceptives. Responding to conservative charges that the Government was a silent partner in promoting illicit sex, the Reagan Administration last week formally announced a long-proposed new rule. Starting Feb. 25, clinics receiving federal funds that give birth-control pills or other prescription contraceptives to an unmarried minor must notify the parents within ten working days. Hastening into court, the Planned Parenthood Federation, the American Civil Liberties Union and New York State, among others, contended that this threatened invasion of privacy violates...
...when Sagan reportedly began battling spells of illness, and her novels grew skimpier and more vulnerable to attack. In 1981 she was devastated when a French court banned her twelfth novel, a 178-page crime story called Le Chien Couchant (The Setter), on the ground that it was an "illicit reproduction" of a short story by another writer. The ban was later reversed on appeal...
...history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic of U.S. society is in danger...
...served to paper over American suspicions that Zia's government is secretly working to develop nuclear arms. Zia firmly denied all such allegations. The Administration refused to press Zia about allegedly widespread human rights violations by his martial-law regime. Zia also insisted that Pakistan, which is the illicit source of an estimated 70% of the heroin coming into the U.S., was "doing its best" to reduce drug trafficking. While Zia's explanations were not always wholly convincing, the timing of his state visit could hardly have been better. Aid to Pakistan will be decided by Congress before...
...Lorean's disgrace was seen by federal law-enforcement officials as symptomatic of the pervasive lure of illegal drugs as a source of illicit riches. "This shows the incredible ability of drugs to corrupt," claimed one Justice Department official. "You're not surprised to find occasional corruption of a $40,000-a-year FBI agent," he added, "but you don't expect it to reach into the ranks of an $850,000-a-year auto executive. It makes you wonder how many other companies have been saved this...