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...with repeated failure. Last year a pro-choice group called Abortion Rights Mobilization decided to force a court challenge of the import ban imposed on RU 486 by the Bush Administration in 1989. The organization helped Leona Benten, a pregnant 29-year-old California social worker, fly to England, obtain a dose of RU 486, then try to bring it into the U.S. through New York City's Kennedy Airport. Customs officials seized the pills. The ensuing legal battle went up to the Supreme Court, which refused to order the government to return the pills. Benten subsequently had a surgical...
Most, though do not attempt to set up a comprehensive set of standards required of contractors that goes beyond the law. As long as each school follows the letter of the law and obtains the approval of the budget office and in cases of debt-financed projects or work above a certain price, the approval of the Corporation, they are allowed a great deal of leeway in the manner in which they obtain construction work...
Upon graduation he had to enter the U.S. Army because he was unable to obtain a deferment...
...drug and should be thoroughly tested. In any case, vitamin supplements cannot substitute for good health habits. Unfortunately for those who want a quick fix, getting plenty of exercise, cutting down on dietary fat and quitting smoking remain far better prescriptions for preventing heart disease than anything one can obtain from a vitamin bottle...
...reason we had to take a phone vote was to obtain the opinions of the people not present," Hanselman said. "Their opinions on the package and its content I would think would certainly outweigh what I thought. Any innuendoes I would make towards the package's positive aspects are in no way any type of pressure from me on to them...