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Word: opener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taboo. The question remaining is whether repeating the ban will have any more effect than the original one, and first indications demonstrate that this time the masters are a little more serious. They have protected themselves by saying the actual happy hours are too dangerous to hold. Alcohol at open parties has to be carefully regulated, in accordance with...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...were in for and that he now has the right to demand your help. But faulty contraception is like a broken window. When you return to your suite and find your stereo missing, do you accede the thief's right to take it because your window is easily pried open? The abortion issue thus forces a clarification of the nature of the individual and his social rights. Although we may feel morally constrained to protect the future child, the fetus does not have the right to force us to do so. In the traditional dichotomy of church and state...

Author: By Tanya Luhrmann, | Title: The Pro-Choice Argument | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Connally's analysis also plays into Arab hands. He envisions that Arabs who receive a favorable settlement will open the spigot and our oil shortage will magically be over. Don't vote on it. Our energy problem will only be solved be domestic programs, and not by OPEC's charity...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Connally Blames the Jews | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...through America's politically powerful Pro-Choice movement, which espouses total freedom to abort. But even among relatively liberal Catholics there is negligible backing for abortion on demand. In fact, no front-rank Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim theologian has yet developed a serious argument for totally open abortion, though most countenance abortion in extreme cases, such as when the mother's life is threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hard Questions on the Issues | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...devices from a single idea like a dividing amoeba and then compartmentalized the creations and endeavors." He was supremely self-confident; if prevailing opinion was that a device could not be invented, that only made Edison more convinced that it could. And Conot depicts a man who was totally open-minded about how to proceed-until he came to a conviction, at which point he turned into a doctrinaire fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Quintessential Innovator | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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