Word: partiality
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...have breast cancer have to decide what to do with their lives and their breasts based on information currently available. There are days when many women would probably agree with Ulene's assessment that it's all a "crapshoot" anyway. After much soul-searching, she finally opted for a partial mastectomy and tamoxifen. It may not happen today. It may not happen tomorrow. But eventually those decisions will start to get easier...
...Secretary of Health and Human Services made good on a promise to treat fetuses as children, granting them (and their mothers) eligibility for government-funded health care. That delighted pro-life advocates, as did Justice's backing of an Ohio effort to revive a state law forbidding so-called partial-birth abortion. Handing out plums to the right is meant to galvanize conservative voters so the G.O.P. can regain control of the Senate (and retain the House), and thus give Bush a major boost on the way to the '04 election...
...blow-up lead to reforms in that system that have been talked about for years? One idea is that Olympic judges should no longer be nominated by the national skating federations but chosen instead by the I.S.U. While that would do nothing to solve the problem of judges' being partial to skaters of their own nationality, it would break the tight links of association that now bind them to their national skating groups. Another idea is to choose judges just half an hour or even 10 minutes before each competition, making it more difficult to conspire among themselves and trade...
...bloody separatist violence. Later, as head of the Paris public-transport authority, he battled unruly unions and a waffling Socialist government to end an era of incessant, paralyzing strikes. As president of Air France from 1993-97, Blanc brought the airline from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability - and partial privatization - by alternatively cajoling and compelling rebellious staff to accept his tough-love restructuring program. Now, in a move that could culminate in a presidential bid later this year, Blanc, 59, has targeted his biggest challenge yet: France's enormous administrative and governmental structure...
...support is a daunting and unrewarding one for the unelected bureaucrats who control the European Central Bank under Gov. Wim Duisenberg. Indeed, he has already been styled “Dim Wim” by the British tabloids for his frequent lapses in judgement. The inevitable consequences of partial economic integration for vast swathes of Europe seem to be either spiralling inflation or ballooning unemployment...