Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper quoted Balfour, now stationed in Dubai, as saying, "It's very much accepted practice if one government gives a note to another saying that this is Joe Soap's official passport, we take their word for it and issue a visa...
Proposition 1 provides no exceptions for rape or incest victims, however it miraculously and magnanimously allows abortions "required to prevent the death of the mother." Note the use of the word mother instead of pregnant woman. Whose mother? This is not neutral language. Even though the proposed amendment was not written to decide the question of when life begins, the assumption here is that abortion means a mother killing her baby, not a woman terminating her pregnancy...
...three were quick to note the varied experience of their boat...
Arnold, realizing he had hit a vein, so to speak, followed with Commando, which for a plot had a Kleenex-thin excuse to set Arnold up with an army of extras--quite literally, they played an army--and an excuse to kill them all. Note carefully: this time he was the hero...
...locker room last night, the champagne flowed freely. Harvard scientists, including five Nobel laureates on hand for the occassion, sucked bubbly and toasted Harvard's most recent superstar. President Derek C. Bok supplemented the alcohol on hand by sending over a vintage bottle of Laurent-Perrier. Attached was a note from Bok that read, in part, "good guys don't always finish last...