Word: sixteener
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...those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize abortion, the nation is on a political collision course...
...billion. But numbers cannot convey the political timidity of the President and Congress in stubbornly holding the line against a tax hike, protecting most entitlements and refusing to make more than token trims in domestic and defense outlays. The Rose Garden agreement, in short, has spawned a Sixteen Tons budget that, to paraphrase the 1950s Tennessee Ernie Ford hit, will just leave the Government "another year older and deeper in debt...
Winning twelve of sixteen events, the Crimson women started the outdoor season...
...Committee of 15, which has been commissioned to pursue possible disciplinary action against strike participants metes out its penalties. Sixteen students are forced to leave Harvard, 20 more face "suspended suspension" and 99 are placed on warning...
...Sixteen professors from both Michigan andPrinceton, and 12 from Columbia, signed thestatement. Law attributed the relative lack ofsupport from Harvard professors to "short notice"and the absence of a contact at the University. "Iwas a little disappointed in Harvard," she said...