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...over the previous year by introducing a line of houses starting at $17,800; such once standard features as carports and fancy lighting fixtures are now offered as extra-cost options. Except for Chrysler, which plans to continue rebates on leftover 1974 models, Detroit's automakers let their six-week rebate scheme expire last week and began pursuing the less-for-less tack. General Motors, for example, has shaved $219 from the list price of its Olds Omega coupe by making such items as radial tires, day-night rear-view mirror and even the cigarette lighter optional...
...district attorney's staff had backed up its indictment through the six-week trial with merely an emotional invitation to the jurors to use their "common sense," to imagine that the letus Kenneth Edelin removed from the woman's womb had been a "baby boy," gasping for breath Still. If was clear what Flanagan was charging Edelin with, when in his bellicose closing to the jury, he employed the language of the anti abortion movement...
...that should have been defined from the outset; at what age is a prematurely delivered fetus considered capable of life apart from the mother? What degree of separation from the mother constitutes birth? What is manslaughter? And even, what is abortion? The attorneys spent most of the six-week trial arguing not about the circumstances of the involved operation, but about which of the possible legal answers to these questions would make Edelin guilty or innocent...
...resultant six-week investigation by Rep. James. G. O'Hara's (D.-Mich.) Special House Subcommittee on Education--the first such review by the legislative branch--apparently will issue in legislation to outlaw such programs. The rationale of the committee's majority here, it seems, is that minority hiring "goals" are the same as "quotas," which are the same as "reverse discrimination," which is something the government should not be "bankrolling...
Every person in the army, male and female, is given extensive training in the field of his or her specialty. This training ranges from the simple (a six-week clerical course, for example) to the complex (training in medical technology that takes almost a year). Whatever training Sgt. Bronwen had received had obviously been thorough and complete. She knew the key phrase for dealings with the press and she knew when to use it: "Miss Bennett, do you mind if I sit in on this interview...