Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know about these things." She also suggests that would-be mothers and fathers start haunting skating rinks, rock concerts, used-clothing stores, anywhere they might hear some gossip and make connections...
...parental-notificatio n rules for minors seeking to terminate pregnancies. In another case, they will review an Illinois statute requiring that abortions be performed in strictly licensed facilities. Upholding the Illinois law would cripple small clinics and, in the view of Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger, could "make abortions nearly impossible to obtain" in many instances...
...trick is to become more like Indians without losing the best parts of cowboy culture -- rationalism and the spirit of inquiry. We need more science now, not less. How can we stretch our nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments...
Without revealing the purpose, Project Inform asked Genelabs, Inc., a California biotechnology firm that manufactures the drug in the U.S., to test samples of Compound Q that Corti brought back from China. They wanted to make sure it was identical to the Compound Q used in the FDA-approved study. An attorney drew up guidelines that would keep the trials within federal law. Each patient made a videotaped statement, in the presence of an attorney and a witness, that he was entering the trial of his own free will. "What we wanted was a trial that was faster than...
CUTTING CAPITAL GAINS. A broad tax break for capital gains, as the House approved and President Bush supports, would in the long run be expensive and dumb. Applying the break to investments we already own does nothing to encourage us to make new ones. Any tax break should be on future investments only...