Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Operation Rescue's tactic is to jam all entrances to an abortion clinic before the police can muster sufficient officers to begin arrests or before pro-choice activists can pre-empt the doorways and leave funnels for staff and patients to enter. Some clinics will close if they know they are going to be hit, so Operation Rescue has made appointments at a number of the clinics, relying on cancellations to tell them which targets are unavailable that day. The scouting of the sites has been thorough: there are diagrams of all points of entry and even Polaroid shots...
...Today there is the whole notion of the home-run movie -- the one movie whereby you never have to work again. The home-run movie completely alters the nature of risk. The old moguls could take a roll on a picture and know that if it didn't work, it wasn't going to bring the studio down. There was a regular cinema audience. Today, as I learned to my cost at Columbia, almost every time you come up to bat, you're making a $20 million, $30 million or $50 million bet. That's not an environment that encourages...
...Maybe I should worry about this, but I don't understand women's motivations, which means that I don't know how to address the script, the castings, etc. Women's reactions are extremely arbitrary...
...amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes. The Justice Department waited until two days after the presidential election to announce that it was entering the Webster case to seek a reversal...
...accused the FSLIC of being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...