Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States and Britain also argue that it would be hard to stop the talks from progressing to the point where they would address the total elimination of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe--a goal of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Thatcher at one point appeared to speculate whether Kohl was in favor of an outright elimination of tactical nuclear weapons. "I'm sure Mr. Kohl will correct me if I have misunderstood him on this issue," she said...
Many people who get blood transfusions these days are understandably nervous. Transfusions have saved countless lives, but they have sometimes transmitted serious blood-borne diseases, including AIDS. While public health officials point out that careful testing has all but eradicated the AIDS virus from the blood supply, they have not been able to claim that transfusions are perfectly safe. Reason: about 5% of patients who receive transfusions are exposed to a virus that can cause a potentially deadly liver infection called non-A, non-B hepatitis...
...intended to counter The Silent Scream, a 1985 antiabortion film that shows a twelve- week-old fetus being swept from the womb. The new video depicts an actual abortion that lasts 84 seconds and shows two aborted embryos, amounting to about two tablespoons of blood and tissue. The point is to illustrate that what is removed during most abortions -- more than 90% are carried out in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy -- is not the near human figure of pro-life displays...
That leaves Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the court, at the pivotal point of a 4-to-4 standoff. Though also a Reagan appointee, O'Connor has indicated that she would not reverse Roe entirely. But she has been strongly willing in the past to give states greater latitude to limit the availability of abortion, and limits are something that pro-choice forces fear almost as much as a reversal. Axing Roe would instantly bring home to millions of American women what they had lost. Whittling it away step by step, case by case could...