Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fringe has gone too far. Says Dr. Melchior Savarese, an obstetrician at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.: This group of women comes into my office with lists of questions. 'Am I going to have an I.V., an external monitor, an enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology at the University of Houston: "The underside of this situation is that these are interesting women. They are wondrous products of the culture of narcissism. They want the best of everything?best marriages, best careers, best children. Unfortunately, life...
Sophomores John Tanaka and David Twite return this year markedly improved over last year. Tanaka suffered an ankle sprain in practice two works ago and has only recently began to work out on it. But the sprain is minor, and he should be back at full strength soon...
Under another new statute aimed at minor violators, a $5 ticket that goes unpaid for 21 days automatically becomes a $10 ticket. If the payment is still neglected after a warning letter is issued, the fine jumps to $25 and the city notifies the registry of motor vehicles...
...York City Criminal Court Judge Alan Friess. Last year Friess was censured for inviting a woman murder suspect, whom he had released without bail, to stay overnight in his home with him and his girlfriend. Now Friess has touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...
Charles Herman was a Harvard-educated journalist, writing for The Nation and public TV. In 1972 he and his wife arrived in Chile, and, 15 months later, during the bloody coup that deposed Salvador Allende, he disappeared. In outline, Charles looks like a modern, minor John Reed. But Missing is not his story. Instead, it tracks the attempts of Charles' wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) to discover whether the young man is indeed missing or dead-killed by the junta for crimes unknown...