Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not believe that, even if enacted, an abortion ban could be enforced or would achieve the goals that the church seeks. "It would be Prohibition revisited." As for stopping Medicaid funding of abortions, Cuomo claimed that poor women would merely find other ways to obtain abortions, while "the rich and middle classes" would be unaffected. "The hard truth is that abortion is not a failure of government. No agency forces women to have abortions, but abortions go on." Cuomo suggested that before Catholic leaders seek laws prohibiting non-Catholics from having abortions, they must convince their own church members...
...that is a less inflammatory issue than in the U.S., since many provinces already fund some, if not all, Roman Catholic schools.) In Toronto, John Paul told a gathering of non-Catholic Christian church leaders that "the needs of the poor must take priority over the desires of the rich" and that ecumenical cooperation is needed to confront the moral implications of technological development...
...giggles again, clearly at some random thought, as she asks, "Did you ever read those really old books about girls' boarding schools? Grace Harlow or someone? There were a lot of them at a resort we used to go to. Anyway, there were always four girls. One beautiful and rich and wicked, and one big and fat and jolly. That's Lavinia and Peg, of course...
...mouth the proper sympathies, but Belushi's tragedy provides a welcome reassurance that celebrity and riches sometimes becomes a bad trip. Asked by Barbara Walters why many fashioned the super-rich an unhappy lot, the wife of Gordon Getty, America's richest man, replied, "People like to think you can't have everything. Well...
...group then set about examining how the iridium spread throughout the world, says Helen Michael, one of the Berkeley team's principle researchers. They reasoned that iridium-rich asteroids bombarded the earth, kicking up so much terrestrial and asteroidal debris into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from the earth for as long as several months. As temperatures plummeted, plants and animals died, leaving the current fossil record...