Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Police and federal investigators now say that the explosion Wednesday morning in front of a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic a mile from the White House was not aimed at the center. According to police, the explosion occurred after a hotel worker picked up the fuse for a practice grenade from the street. Federal officials, already on top alert for a possible wave of violence on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, thought at first that the explosion must be connected to the adjacent clinic. Early reports said that the man carrying the device...
...interviews by TIME correspondents with voters in cafes and K Marts, indicate that this desire for a stronger safety net--and the suspicion that most Republicans don't understand it--explains much of the voting gender gap. Women feel more vulnerable than men to calamities like sudden single parenthood. And in today's tumultuous, hyper-competitive, global economy, which creates many new jobs but with less security, men as well as women can imagine themselves needing help someday to keep their health insurance during a period of unemployment, to get loans for additional education or to support themselves...
...anchored by his defense of veterans and his fierce antiabortion stand. The Jewish War Veterans named him Legislator of the Year in 1996 for his work on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. He has used his position on the International Relations Committee to oppose aid programs abroad sponsored by Planned Parenthood. Apart from abortion, he has a decidedly moderate record...
...green steel siding; there's a Japanese maple squatting like a sumo wrestler out front, and a sweet gum tree, and a big red oak in the back shading the gas grill and the lawn chairs. The house is a home--a sweet, messy testament to the compromises of parenthood; the curtains are lace, the couches paisley, the walls papered in cream with pink roses and wreaths of dried flowers, all soft edges and tones that fade behind the yelping primary colors of Playskool and Fisher-Price...
...midwife during the 1960s in New York City's Harlem and in Dayton, Ohio, she spent the early years of her career in the trenches, caring for women and girls forced to deal with the consequences of unintended pregnancies and back-alley abortions. As director of the Dayton Planned Parenthood affiliate, and then as president of the national organization, she was at the forefront of the fight to legalize abortion and of the ongoing battle to prevent the erosion of Roe v. Wade. In her account, her efforts at Planned Parenthood were hindered not only by the forces of political...