Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important sex discrimination case" since 1964, dissenting Judge Frank Easterbrook, a conservative Reagan appointee, assailed the ruling. Citing research indicating that contaminated men also risk injuring their offspring, he wrote, "No legal or ethical principle . . . allows Johnson to assume that women are less able than men to make intelligent decisions about the welfare of the next generation, that the interests of the next generation always trump the interests of living woman, and that the only acceptable level of risk is zero...
Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion foreign debt...
...White House reiterated its preference for an amendment but stopped short of threatening a veto. In late September Bush broke weeks of silence on the abortion issue by praising the "protection of human life" to a group of Catholic lawyers in Boston. But his Justice Department will not make oral arguments in any of the three abortion cases that will come before the Supreme Court this term...
...cross borders to hunt, as from Somalia into Kenya or Zambia into Zimbabwe, then carry the tusks back by night. Some poachers are tribal villagers, illiterate and poor, who stalk their prey on foot, walking for weeks, living off game. A poacher in Kenya says he believes tribal charms make him invisible to antipoaching units. He buries his tusks in the village latrine or hides them in a nearby cave. He sells them for a pittance (as little as $40 for a tusk that may eventually bring $1,000 in Japan) to a respected businessman in a nearby town...
...rumors swirled that someone might launch a takeover raid on American Airlines, the largest and most respected U.S. carrier. In August the board of American's parent company, AMR, bolstered its so-called poison-pill defenses by allowing management greater flexibility to issue new stock in order to make a takeover more expensive. The Fort Worth company also signed up the high-powered Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers to develop a full-defense strategy. AMR even asked the New York Stock Exchange to investigate recent large trades in its stock, which caused volatile swings in its share...