Word: obtainment
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...minors seeking to terminate pregnancies. In another case, they will review an Illinois statute requiring that abortions be performed in strictly licensed facilities. Upholding the Illinois law would cripple small clinics and, in the view of Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger, could "make abortions nearly impossible to obtain" in many instances...
Race Discrimination. The court's conservative turn was underscored by last term's civil rights and affirmative-action rulings, which made it more difficult both to prove discrimination and to obtain preferential treatment. This week the Justices will explore how broad is the power of federal courts to remedy discrimination. Taking up a volatile dispute from Yonkers, N.Y., the court will determine if a judge may compel city council members to vote for a housing-desegregation plan. Later, in a case from Kansas City, it will decide whether a judge may order tax hikes to finance a school-desegregation plan...
...trial's volunteers were all men who had failed to respond to conventional AIDS therapy, including AZT, so far the only FDA-approved drug for treating the AIDS virus. To obtain accurate readings on Compound Q's effectiveness, volunteers were asked to stop using any other approved or unapproved drugs...
Defeat him through the exercise of your own rights to free speech. Make noise. Shout to the world the nature of Mobuto's disgraces against human decency and dignity. Deprive him of the respectability he hopes to obtain. Make it clear that when he speaks at Harvard he taints the honor of Harvard. In short, make him uncomfortable, but don't be offensive...
...modest fee, a prospective college student can contact our headquarters (which will be my room, although we will not in any way be affiliated with the University, Really.) and obtain the real dirt on the colleges they're applying to. Then everything will be fair. Colleges can decide how much to charge students. and students can decide whether or not the colleges are worth...