Word: performancy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month study of abortions at the hospital and then charged the researchers and Dr. Leonard Berman, a pathologist who supplied them with fetal tissue, with the unauthorized use of a body. The investigators also came upon the records of Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy, he performed a hysterotomy, a form of caesarean section, delivering a fetus that pathologists estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks...
...here Coleman's objective analysis ends. Rarely does he show a recognition that permanently performing a menial role crushes the working man's dignity in support of the upper class. Rather, any larger sense of the working man's plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the lost muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual...
...amendment also provides an alternative to the impeachment process for removing a President. It states that if the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet inform Congress that the President is unable to perform his duties, the Vice President shall immediately take over. If the President objects and claims that "no inability exists," the Congress must decide the issue by a two-thirds vote. The amendment was originally passed, in 1967, to cover cases of physical and mental disability...
...some humorous things. For example, there would be a fund-raising dinner, and he hired Wayne the Wizard to fly in from the Virgin Islands to perform a magic show. He sent invitations to all the black diplomats and sent limousines out to have them picked up and they hadn't been invited. He had 400 pizzas sent to another--P. Sure! what the hell! Pranks! Tuck did all those things in 1960, and all the rest...
...legislature will consider the proposals this week. Unlike the first draft, the final bill allows doctors to perform experiments on tissue from dead fetuses, including those obtained through intentional abortions...