Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of abortion argue that the form--which outlines abortion procedures, risks and alternatives and uses the phrase "human-like" to describe an eight-week-old fetus--is educational and helpful to women who have questions about abortion. They also support the second part of the law, which requires minors to obtain the consent of both parents or a judge before undergoing an abortion. The purpose of the legislation, as Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone worded it, is to insure that a pregnant woman has "a full appreciation of the consequences and significance of her decision...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
...terms, Dispatches might best be regarded as a huge and motley totesack -- a literary receptacle for sensation and memory, hard facts now and then shifting the balance to visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...
...generation of leaders for China." That was the common catch phrase around Peking last week as 3,500 members of the National People's Congress arrived for an eagerly awaited 14-day session in Peking's cavernous Great Hall of the People. The congress usually gathers once a year, but this meeting was far from ordinary. The delegates, elected and representing all of the country's 29 provinces, regions and special municipalities, convened to ratify a series of leadership changes that would mark the passing of the old revolutionary guard from government office, though not from party...
...small town as an ideal is familiar. The very notion, as though invented by Norman Rockwell, has always carried with it images of low-key living, easy friendships, neighborly neighbors, front-porch sociability, back-fence congeniality, downtown camaraderie. Small town-the phrase evokes an intimate sense of community, leafy serenity, free of the sinister strangers who menace the cold, grimy canyons of the city. U.S. literature has abounded with ugly portraits of small towns like Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, but the wistful ideal has survived. Americans have always been readier to be pierced by the human loveliness...