Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That does not mean that all women who get pregnant should be forced to have the baby. There are competing constitutional claims for both the mother and the fetus, a potential rational being, which must be balanced. Sometimes this balance would mean that some women should be allowed to have abortions, even if their lives are not in danger...
...problem for Bush, observers say, is that the promises he made in the campaign mean tough cuts for other programs. Already, he has pledged not to touch Social Security, and has suggested he would not cut Medicare. Moreover, while Bush has said he would trim the defense budget, he has said he would limit it only to the level of inflation...
These constraints, say experts like Susan Irving, a Kennedy School of Government lecturer, mean Bush must cut other programs drastically if he wants to meet the balanced budget goals required by the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings...
...knew for sure that Gorbachev was going to be there for four years, eight years, 20 years, you could draw up a policy that would respond to his flexibility and would probably mean a brand new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, something we really haven't seen for 90 years," says Marshall I. Goldman, the associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center...
...weeks that followed, there was an intense debate at the frat house. Everyone liked Ron and agreed that he would make a good member, but they worried about what it would mean for the fraternity. Brown said little, though he let it be known that he was unwilling to finesse the issue by accepting house privileges without full membership. Finally, the fraternity brothers rallied around and initiated him. As a result, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi revoked the chapter's charter. Middlebury responded by barring any fraternity with racial barriers. Eventually, all the college's fraternities repealed their exclusionary...