Word: placed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostility of this place certainly had its effect," Collins said, referring to the recent budget and tax debates. "We appreciate the support we've had in the Senate and hope it will continue...
...Perfect Place...
Dogs, who are generally fairly stupid animals, will play this game for hours. Reading Sheila Kohler's first novel, The Perfect Place, is a lot like being the dog in this game...
...avoided a full-scale political brawl between those at one extreme who feel that a fetus is a mass of dependent protoplasm to be extracted without regret and those at the other pole who believe that an embryo deserves protection from the moment of conception. With Roe in place, politicians could pay rhetorical homage to the pro-life movement without having to act on their professed dislike of abortion. Pro-choice groups, confident that the Roe ruling had established an unassailable constitutional right, grew smug and complacent...
...America's abortion policy could end up roughly where it is now: abortion available more or less on demand for the first three months (when more than 90% of today's abortions take place anyway), available only for certain weighty reasons in mid-pregnancy and generally unavailable for the last few weeks. But we would arrive at that sensible arrangement without all the embarrassing intellectual paraphernalia of "trimesters" and "viability" that came out of Justice Blackmun's futile effort, in the Roe decision, to derive a necessary compromise between moral absolutes from first principles. There are no first principles, constitutional...