Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, the Supreme Court's recent decision on flag-burning has touched off quite a reaction across the nation. Here in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court has never been particularly well-liked, folks have been down-right offensive...
...year-old health-care law was touted last year during the Dukakis presidential campaign as the first of its king in the nation, but advocates say the House changes would gut the bill...
Democracy usually requires that its battles be fought in the legislatures. But in the 16 years since Roe was decided, the nation has avoided a full-scale political brawl between those at one extreme who feel that a fetus is a mass of dependent protoplasm to be extracted without regret and those at the other pole who believe that an embryo deserves protection from the moment of conception. With Roe in place, politicians could pay rhetorical homage to the pro-life movement without having to act on their professed dislike of abortion. Pro-choice groups, confident that the Roe ruling...
...wives or husbands; they took their own lives or came to a violent end in a street quarrel or drug dispute. What they have in common is that they are all victims of an American epidemic: hundreds more like them will die this week, and the week after. See NATION...
...NATION: By upholding a restrictive abortion law, the Supreme Court sets the stage for a corrosive political fight...