Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some unmarried girls. They feel that to take them regularly, calculatingly, in anticipation of a possible amorous encounter, would deprive them of a treasured "feeling of innocence" when the great moment arrived. For some of them, as for their boy friends, an essential element in a premarital fling is risk...
...gave them IUDs. On form, he could have expected 50 pregnancies within a year and a half. Actually there was only one-and that because a girl deliberately skipped her pills. In Baltimore, a preventive pill-and-IUD program is being carried out among pubertal-age girls in "high-risk" (slum) areas...
...hard line on abortion is even more likely to continue. Both the law and the risk are more severe. By law, a "therapeutic" abortion is legal only when two doctors independently attest that the pregnancy seriously threatens the life or sanity of the mother. Because the application for a therapeutic abortion has to be accepted by hospital and state authorities, legal abortions are rare. The UHS performs no abortions. Therapeutic abortions, if they can be arranged, are done at Boston hospitals...
Henry R. Norr '68, chairman of the HPC, explained last night why his committee prefers the fourth course plan. One of the main purposes of pass-fail is to encourage students to experiment in courses outside their field of competence that they would not risk taking for a grade, he said. "But if pass-fail means an extra burden -- a fifth course -- it is not likely to foster much experimentation," Norr concluded...
...fact, O'Leary asserts that "if the Government follows reasonably appropriate policies, some of the things that it is already doing will strengthen the economy, and we will see a rise in the second half of this year." All of which may run him the risk of getting the next presidential TV encomium...