Word: passes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic quality of Levi's mind, skeptical but sympathetic, a bit melancholy but witty; one feels that he is a friend. About all those beetles, Levi speculates that they may be the creatures destined to take over the postnuclear world. "Many millions of years will have to pass," he writes, "before a beetle particularly loved by God . . . will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light." It is a prospect that nobody else could have imagined...
Moreover, Barnard charges, Rostenkowski has threatened to scuttle any attempt to pass a House resolution granting his subcommittee the authority to get the records on its own. The IRS insists that it has complied as fully as the law allows by turning over 12,000 pages of documents and making available 75 agency employees as witnesses. Says IRS spokeswoman Ellen Murphy: "It's unfortunate that the cooperation we have given is ignored because the law prohibits us from talking about a couple of obviously interesting cases...
BOSTON--By a margin of 23-16, pro-choice forces in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday rejected resolution calling on Congress to pass a Human Life Amendment that would outlaw abortion by declaring that life begins at conception...
...vote put the Senate squarely on the side of abortion rights for the first time, but even the victors acknowledged that a differently worded proposal to limit legal abortions could still pass...
That approach, however, has raised the ire of many legal experts and women's rights groups. "These cases are attacks on women," says Lynn Paltrow of the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project. "If states pass laws that make maternal behavior a crime against the fetus, and if the state can create prenatal police patrols for cocaine use, then where would they draw the line?" Opponents note that alcohol use, smoking and other kinds of maternal conduct have also been shown to damage fetuses. Says Paltrow: "For some women, standing on their feet all day is harmful. Will they arrest them...