Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although women's groups have announced their opposition to Souter for his refusal to answer specific questions about abortion rights, the unassuming, reclusive New Englander seems to have disarmed most of his committee foes. In a baritone voice, the strength of which belies his slight physique and reticent demeanor, Souter movingly deflected insinuations that he is a legal automaton with little regard for the human condition. As a trial judge, he said, "I learned two lessons: one, some human life is going to be changed in some way by what we do . . . and two, therefore, we had better use every...
...couple of years ago, I started to use a true story about Mother Teresa to illustrate how all New Yorkers, living in what I believe could be considered a rather challenging environment, find themselves trying to get a little edge. Around 1987, Mayor Koch was briefly hospitalized with a slight stroke, and a few days later he got a surprise visit from Mother Teresa, who happened to be in town to establish a hospice. She told him he had been in her prayers, and he took the occasion to say that New York was grateful for her presence and that...
...prevail. "The legal tradition is very strong that you can't invade a child's body to help another," says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
Saddam's aggression immediately cast the financial markets into turmoil. Some economists believe that even a slight surge in prices could push America's economy, already weakened by sluggish demand, the federal deficit and the S&L crisis, over the brink into recession. Perhaps more important, Saddam's move on the Middle East is an unexpected test of whether nations will pay the necessary price to assure peace and stability in the new global climate. Said a senior State Department official: "You just cannot allow this kind of behavior to go unchecked...
While Morse said he expected the grand jury to approve the arrest warrant this week, he added that there is still a slight chance that the warrant could be denied...