Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea, but Lott said he wasn't sure yet whether his fractious Republicans would do the same. The plan, which Lott would float publicly within hours, envisioned a sort of mini-trial, with opening arguments by prosecutors and the White House and few or no witnesses called by either side. After that would come a series of votes to determine whether the case against the President was strong enough to garner the 67 ayes, or two-thirds of the Senate, needed to remove Clinton from office. If, as Lott expected, the votes weren't there, the Senate would then consider...
...wouldn't do anything differently on the political side. Where I would do things differently is in the management of egos. I would say the Prime Minister has to devote equal time not only to the tasks of security and peacemaking and economic reform, all of which I did to my utmost, but to the maintenance, shall we say, of, ah, personal relationships...
...authority to judge that decision? Baby boomers who have postponed parenthood 20 years or more increasingly turn to fertility drugs, knowing this will lead to twins 20% of the time and to triplets or more an additional 5% of the time. The sidewalks of Manhattan's Upper West Side are clogged these days by strollers for twins and triplets, pushed by gray-haired parents. And it's no longer unusual in any part of the country to meet women in their mid-40s who are pregnant for the first time...
...definitely helped [me decide to concentrate in psychology]. I got to talk to people and asked them questions and I saw that I'd like to be on the other side doing that," Olivia M. Hall '02 said...
These are precisely the moral issues that the philosopher Peter Unger addresses in his recent book, Living High and Letting Die. Unger comes down firmly on the side of contributing. As he writes, "Is it really seriously wrong not to do anything to lessen distant suffering; or is it quite all right to do nothing?....I argue that the first of these thoughts is correct and that, far from being just barely false, the second conflicts strongly with the truth about morality...