Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court's ruling in Rust v. Sullivan made little medical or intellectual or moral sense. It does not forbid women to seek abortion counseling and referrals. But it narrows -- and in some cases may even eliminate -- access to such services for many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates...
...class bias already swirling around capital punishment, there are concerns that a decision upholding Payne's death sentence will produce further inequities. Hypothetically, the grieving family of a murdered bank president would be persuasive witnesses for the death penalty, while no one would speak for a slain prostitute. Diann Rust-Tierney of the A.C.L.U. is worried that the Supreme Court will "sanction different punishment based on the worth of the victim and aggravate an already pronounced discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied...
...still use the planes -- and their pilots, who remain in detention -- as leverage in any future bargaining with Iraq over a final settlement of the Iran-Iraq war, for which there is now only an oral peace pact. If that fails and the planes eventually decompose into pricey rust heaps, at least Iran will have the satisfaction of knowing that Saddam was denied their...
Augmenting the strength up the middle is power-hitter Nick DelVecchio, who held down the first-base job for most of the 1990 season. The other corner spot remains up for grabs as third base provides a question mark with no clear starter emerging. Contenders include junior Rex Rust and freshman Mike Giardi...
...county search-and- rescue mission. His steady marksmanship enabled him to bag a four-point buck, whose weathered rack sits on a fence beside his house. Around town, folks knew Thom was coming when they saw "Baby Huey," a battered green-and- rust 1972 GMC pickup. He would zoom through mud puddles in it, yelling at friends, "Just like a Jeep commercial...