Word: restrictiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, many women are hoping that their movement will get a strong boost next year if the Supreme Court decides to overturn or restrict the abortion rights granted by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Major decisions are often handed down in late June or early July, at the end of the court's annual session. An antiabortion ruling then would give speakers at the Democrats' July convention the ammunition to denounce the work of G.O.P.-appointed Justices. Republicans have reason to worry: the issue divides their party and has already cost them the governorships of Virginia, New Jersey...
SUCH UNPRODUCTIVE WORK practices should surprise no one. Classical and neo-classical economists have always held that unions, because they restrict what workers can do and make it more difficult for management to fire inefficient workers, harm productivity...
...course, chiropractic could restrict itself to relieving back pain and still have its hands full. By some estimates, 75% of all Americans will suffer from low-back aches at some point in their lifetime. The annual cost to U.S. society of treating the ubiquitous ailment was recently tallied at a crippling $24 billion, compared with $6 billion for AIDS and $4 billion for lung cancer. If spinal manipulation could ease even a fraction of that financial burden, remaining skeptics might be forced to stifle their misgivings or get cracking themselves...
...Wade guaranteed abortion rights, but abortion rights supporters are worried that a now more conservative Supreme Court may overturn it or, at the very least, restrict its guarantees of abortion access...
After two hours of election-year rhetoric from councillors and persuasive speeches from citizens, the council voted 6 to 3 to reject a plan that would restrict industrial development on 75 acres of land next to the Charles River and near...