Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice advocates who insist on the difference between supporting choice and promoting abortion might find it especially advisable to respect pro-life activism. What does the pro-choice movement have to fear from people offering women other options? The legitimacy of the pro-choice cause can only be helped by taking the stance that abortion should be a last resort instead of a form of birth control or lifestyle maintenance. In the struggle to make abortion "safe, legal and rare," the rhetoric used to justify the first two objectives tends to trivialize the moral reasons for the third, creating...
...while Harvard cites the need to remain competitive to account for large spending on high profile teams like football and men's hockey, Stanford officials insist they can implement the plan and still be competitive...
...then have had to pony up more and more. Now the Clinton Administration is asking for an additional $45 billion, making a total of about $200 billion, and swears that will be the last. The figure is $11 billion higher than the White House calculated last month; Clinton aides insist that the increase reflects only their determination to make sure they do not have to go back to Congress ever again (though the Congressional Budget Office fears they might still be $5 billion short). Congress can blame itself for some extra cost. In 1992 it refused...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
...nothing short of indulgent sentimentality to insist on unlimited treatment when there are 37 million Americans with no health insurance and no access to simple, effective care. Every so often, the case of an anencephalic baby who is to be taken off life support gets publicity. This inevitably occasions the grotesque spectacle of right-to-life zealots trying to adopt the baby to prove that it is worth millions of dollars to treat such a hopeless case. To them, I say this: offer to pay for the care, too. They should save their abundant crocodile tears for the less glamorous...