Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team came rumbling down the staircase en masse, with head coach Joe Restic in the middle of the throng. He held a Crimson jersey rolled up in his hands, and, smiling broadly, proclaimed, "This is it. This...
Last week a New Jersey judge failed to make that standard a legal one when he ruled that the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan could not allow her to expire. Quinlan is comatose and cannot speak or think. She also cannot live without the mechanical support of an artificial respirator; by the Harvard criteria she is dead...
...language seemed innocuous enough: "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed...
...legal status of their action is dubious. Congress has the authority to disregard such votes and has done so once in the past. Still, both sides in the ERA struggle expect the issue to reach the Supreme Court. The victorious anti-ERA forces in New York and New Jersey are already gearing up for campaigns to revoke ratification. More important, some feminists now fear that their setback may produce a national split on ERA along liberal-conservative lines. So far, conservative politicians have not seen much political potential in opposing equal rights for women. After last week's emotional...
...fears being wrong in making intelligent decisions in her field so she avoids making them. She would not discuss the Edelin case, or the case of Karen Quinlan, the comatose woman in New Jersey, because they were still in the courts. When pressed on the Quinlan case she said, "I don't want to talk about that case, I really don't because, as I say, it is still in the court and its very, very hard for all the people involved. So I'd prefer...