Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again the wishes of those of us who live in the Western portion of our country have been subordinated to those of the powerful voting coalitions in the South and the East. Their problems will continue as long as they maintain the illusion that more federal spending can solve their economic woes. A balanced budget is the only solution to these problems. Perhaps the states west of the Mississippi should secede and allow the socialists to continue their movement in the East...
...front page article by Gay W. Seidman, Friday Nov. 12, The Crimson announced that the University had decided to include abortions in the Student Health Care Plan. The article said that under the new policy, University Health Services will refund the portion of the fee that goes toward non-therapeutic abortions to students who oppose such voluntary abortions...
...article, or in subsequent articles on the plan ("Covering Abortions, Slowly," Saturday, Nov. 13, and editorials "For UHS Abortion Coverage" and "Against Abortion Coverage," Wednesday, Nov. 17) did The Crimson specify how students can obtain this refund. Those of us who are interested for moral reasons in withdrawing the portion of our Health Services fee that would go toward abortion coverage were left totally in the dark as to how we could...
...might be construed from the above statement as quoted. The fee for abortion coverage, and therefore the refund I will receive, is less than $1.00. But I believe my financial support of abortion would imply moral support of the procedure, and for this reason will ask that my portion be withdrawn from the UHS's abortion coverage fund. Students who feel similarly should know that information on how to obtain the refund is (we hope) on the way. Grace Mary Belfiore...
...months after Hughes died of kidney failure aboard a Texas-bound private airplane, none of those questions had been answered; Howard Hughes was generating as much mystery from the grave as he had in life. In the most bizarre quest for information yet, a neuropathologist will soon examine a portion of Hughes' brain that has been pickled and preserved in a jar on a shelf in Houston's Methodist Hospital. His mission: to look for evidence of disease or damage that could have impaired Hughes' judgment; such a finding would throw into question anything that Hughes signed...