Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then asked his men to join in singing Amazing Grace. "I don't care about a lot of things I used to care about," said Private First Class Mike Stevens, 19, afterward. "All I care about now is that the rest of us get out of here safe." Captain Roy's men talk frequently of the two soldiers killed by a rocket as they stepped from their bunker two weeks ago. Says Lance Corporal Randy Lunt, 21: "The pictures we took together are still in my camera. I hope they turn out. I'll keep them forever...
...philosophical tension between their own "pro-life" claims and the Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...
...ruling) stand in irreconcilable opposition; in singlemindedly promoting the welfare of the unborn, anti-abortionists implicitly if not explicitly discount the concerns of the living. Women have historically sought abortions and in this country the practices has become particularly widespread. Concern for life speaks for making these operations as safe as possible--legalized abortion. Nowhere is right to life's disdain for living more ironically apparent than in state and national measures to cut aid for abortions, placing them out of the reach of women for whom they are often truly a necessity. World ecological and economic constraints speak...
...takes himself too seriously on occasion, at least he does it with a good heart. Here is a man, you are certain soon into the book, who has been weaned on old piles of Sporting News and stickball in the night, and you are sure this important saga is safe in his understanding hands. A cherished period in baseball, for both those who can recall it from personal experience and those less fortunate who remember it only from the worn pages of the record books, is brought back to life. The roll-call of greats that parade through Tygiel...
Just when they thought it was safe to go back in the academic water, this year's seniors and juniors find their "transitional" General Education and Core requirements creeping up on them. Below are answers to the six most frequently asked questions about what to take...