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...shall not be denied by government on the basis of sex. But in Florida, as elsewhere, opponents claimed that the ERA would force the legalization of homosexual marriage, end the support of wives by their husbands, and require use of the same public toilets by men and women. With scant effect, legal experts insist that the ERA requires none of these measures...
...Abrahamsen leaps from the known facts to argue that Hannah's home was "joyless," that she perhaps cared for Richard "as much out of duty as out of real love," was "repressed," "anger-filled" and "castrating." Abrahamsen offers scant evidence for these judgments, relying heavily upon a single, pathetic letter from Richard as a lonely ten-year-old. The ex-President's cousin. Novelist Jessamyn West, says she tried to talk Abrahamsen out of his opinion of Hannah, and his depiction of the father, Frank Nixon, as "brutal...
Although the scientists left Asilomar thinking that they had allayed public fear about their work, they had only managed to fan it. Newspapers, which had until then paid scant attention to the story of recombinant DNA, erupted with scare headlines, alarming the nation with exaggerated doomsday prophecies. Two months later, Ted Kennedy held his first hearings on the new genetics. Some scientists, joined by politicians, began questioning whether the molecular biologists should do their own policing. Said one: "This is probably the first time in history that the incendiaries formed their own fire brigade...
Wide Variables. Though they have scant evidence to back their accusation, some Washington officials charge that the energy companies understate reserves in order to promote price deregulation. Industry leaders respond that estimating reserves is a highly inexact science. Explains Dale Wood-dy, chief of Exxon's domestic natural-gas operations: "Two well-qualified engineers can take the same raw data from a new field and come up with reserve estimates that may vary by more than...
During the first five years of this decade, the placid community of Santa Barbara on Southern California's Pacific Coast witnessed nearly zero population growth. The head count of residents over the period increased a scant .58% and today stands at 72,500. Santa Barbarans have decided they like it that way. Last week they overwhelmingly approved a local proposition requiring voter approval of any city council moves that would allow the population to rise above 85,000. The referendum, as one resident put it, offered Santa Barbarans a chance "to vote on how big they want this seaside...