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Word: performancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the two big men perform this task, Mike Griffin, Arnie Needleman, and Bill Carey are free to concentrate on taking the good shots, instead of forcing low percentage attempts in order to compensate for the lack of scoring punch from Silver and Banks...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson Cagers Whip Indians, 87-83; Silver, Banks Propel Harvard Offense | 2/26/1975 | See Source »

...implications of this ruling are enormous. Doctors will probably continue to perform early abortions when there is no question about a fetus' inability to survive outside the womb. But, fearful of sharing Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term abortions. The Boston decision is likely to please antiabortionists, who have been trying for nearly two years to overturn or circumvent the Supreme Court's decision. But it may well work untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who may now find that although late abortions are technically legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Setback for Abortion | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

WHAT IS MOST striking about Giminez-Jimeno's testimony, in retrospect is that it agreed in its essentials with Edelin's own version of events: Edelin did, after all, perform an abortion with the intention of producing a dead fetus. The dramatic power of Giminez-Jimeno's testimony obscured the fact that he was accusing the defendant of something already stipulated. Some of the horror of that testimony was inherent in the nature of abortion...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: The Commonwealth's Case | 2/22/1975 | See Source »

...Center for Urban Studies willingness to perform a liaison function does not imply approval or disapproval of the actions of the Boston School Committee or the Boston School Department," Edmonds said yesterday...

Author: By Michael L. Silk, | Title: Harvard to Assist Boston School Department | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

...jury's verdict--on the surface the conviction of a particular doctor for a particular operation--will have the effect the prosecution desired when it brought the indictment last April, of intimidating those who perform legal abortions. Still, as a thousand supporters demonstrated Monday, there is much to be hoped after all this: That a higher court will reverse the decision on the grounds that no state statute warned Edelin that the operation he undertook was culpable. Or that the state Board of Registration in Medicine will uphold Edelin's actions by refusing to revoke his license. Or that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember February 15 | 2/19/1975 | See Source »

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