Word: illing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...waiting periods range from 30 days in New York to zero in Virginia and Oregon, where Purdy bought his rifle.) Such a cooling-off period is thought necessary to allow time for a thorough background check that would disclose whether the would-be buyer is a felon or mentally ill. Such proposals have picked up powerful new allies: police chiefs who once opposed gun control but fear that their patrolmen are being outgunned by crack-dealing gangs and other criminals...
...coup comes as Stroessner is in ill health following surgery for a prostate operation five months...
...then to a consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan is that a successful President takes "a principled position and stays with it," Bush's own success may depend on yet another...
Most Japanese, convinced that most of the nations that count are behaving with propriety, have paid little attention to the foreign debates. As for Hirohito's war guilt, the matter received a round of fresh attention after the Emperor fell ill in September. When his death halted regular programming for two days, Japanese television devoted extensive coverage, including rarely seen war footage, to Hirohito's career. But Japan seemed disinclined to indulge in an orgy of self-examination. Viewers bored with the special shows flooded video-rental stores across the country. Many Japanese worry less about an old war than...
After completing their medical-history forms, patients at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Ill., are asked an unusual question: Would they be willing to write a letter thanking the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices for the right to have an abortion? Few refuse. Says Lori, 30, a businesswoman who terminated her pregnancy there earlier this month: "It really makes me mad that they are trying to outlaw...