Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta shows that, despite the Hyde amendment, most low-income women are neither bearing unwanted children nor turning to kitchen-table abortionists. That is because 76% of the poor women seeking abortions live in the 15 populous states that have used state funds to make up for the lost federal money; many of the other 24% can get financial help from private groups or obtain abortions at low-cost clinics...
...choice groups are well aware that they have lost ground to the more active antiabortionists. Admits Karen Mulhauser, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "After the Supreme Court decision, a lot of our groups on the state level folded up. Our people went on to ERA, environmental problems and the like. We relaxed, and the other side began to organize." Based in Washington, her group is spending about $1 million this year in a drive to raise funds, expand its field operations and enlarge membership beyond the present 65,000. It has distributed some 200,000 postcards...
...what they have needed for a year--a new first baseman. Though George Scott recalls memories of golden gloves and home-run rallies, it was apparent last March that Scott's best years had come and gone. He came to spring training in 1978 grossly overweight, and though he lost some pounds this winter, he never got his needle back on true north...
...goes to prove that fraternity men--lost in a maze of Greek symbols--have no instincts, just pranks. For in this eyesore of an American city, there is only one home beyond the bright cars and bars and stars and stores and doors and store 24s--the beach. Daytona's only redeeming feature. Perhaps the only reddeming factor for any American city. The only place in America's officious urban character where the lonely can find the lonely, the troubled can listen to peace, and the hot and frenzied can relax...
Higgins, author of the minor classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), still knows how to place surreal descriptions in the dialogue of his characters: "Marian looked like a small horse, perhaps a pony, who had read Vogue and believed it." And he has not lost his conductor's ear for the music and lilt of Boston Irish patois. Here the punch lines are stronger than the plot lines, but Higgins' characters are so shrewdly observed by Year's end, as Edgar confronts Peter, that it is impossible to disagree with his summary...