Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor? In considering such explosive questions, legislators have plunged themselves into the middle of a war zone. "It's the toughest issue I've had to deal with in 20 years of public life," says newly elected Republican Senator Alien Specter of Pennsylvania. Predicts Barbara Shack, of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "The abortion fight is the political battle...
...choice side points out what is undeniably true: a woman has a right to privacy, a right to control her body and her reproductive life. Says Lobbyist Shack: "We believe there is no greater tyranny over an individual than the power to control childbearing." For most women who seek abortions, there are very practical reasons. The changing mores that some social conservatives lament have freed many women from what the pro-choice advocates call a "barefoot and pregnant" domestic role. For a career woman, or a young student working to enter the job market, being forced to bear an unwanted...
...than laser systems. RCA will immediately offer 100 programs that range from the movie Rocky to demonstrations on baby care narrated by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Finally, SelectaVision will be sold in 5,000 stores under the RCA label, and a compatible system is being marketed by Zenith, Sears, Radio Shack and Hitachi under their own brand names...
...largest telecommunications and electronics firms. Shortly thereafter Matsushita is expected to start selling a handheld computer under its brand names Quasar and Panasonic. An informal poll of American computer executives revealed that they expect the Japanese to capture a third of the market by 1985. Says Radio Shack Vice President Jon Shirley: "The Japanese are bound to be competitive, and I worry about the Japanese much more than...
...home: one in the den for financial use, one in the living room for education and entertainment, and one in the kitchen for information. The current Shootout in the industry will determine whether brand names like Panasonic and IBM will soon become as common on small computers as Radio Shack and Apple...