Word: rule
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DEAR WORLD. Plays converted into musicals have a high disaster ratio, and this one, from Jean Giraudoux's The Mad woman of Chaillot, is no exception to the rule. Angela Lansbury, looking like a ruefully unkempt Colette, is excellent as the madwoman, but the Jerry Herman score is disappointing and Joe Layton's choreography is mediocre...
Biblical Predecessors. If she accepts, the Russian-born onetime Milwaukee schoolteacher will be the third woman to rule Israel and the territory that was ancient Judah (after two Biblical predecessors, Jezebel's daughter Athaliah and Queen Alexandra). A longtime aide to Premier David Ben-Gurion, who once called her "the only man in my Cabinet" because she firmly backed his hard-lining policies toward the Arabs, she served as Labor Minister, and later as Foreign Minister for ten years. In 1966, she retired from the government, but until last summer remained Secretary General of the Israel Labor Party...
...hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would endanger her life. Inevitably, there were uncounted and uncountable illegal, back...
...trouble, it develops, is that too few Britons are getting legal abortions under the National Health Service, which has too few gynecological surgeons and hospitals with enough ob-stetrics-gynecology beds to satisfy the rising demand. Previously, each year produced about 10,000 legal or Bourne rule abortions. In the first eight months under the new law there were 22,256, and it is expected that the total for the first twelve months will go to at least 35,000, possibly to 50,000. Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed...
...general rule, the Ad Board will take action on all cases it considers. This action can be admonition, probation, suspension, or one of the various types of firing--expulsion, withdrawal, expungement...