Word: submits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese cultural norms is familiar terrain for anyone who has read Robert Whiting's You Gotta Have Wa. With Whiting as his co-author, Cromartie illustrates the insidious ways the Japanese both honor and humiliate migrant American ballplayers. "We were constantly being watched," Cromartie complains. "We had to submit ourselves to incessant badgering and nitpicking, which began in camp and continued all year long. That was Japanese-style quality control...
...years on anyone performing the procedure unless the pregnancy threatened the mother's life or stemmed from rape or incest. Several variants on that bill, many of them even stiffer, are being considered by the Sejm, the lower house, which is due to vote this week on whether to submit the question to a national referendum. Earlier this month, the bishops' conference condemned that option. Meanwhile, the government has ended subsidies for birth-control pills. That move, which many suspect was church inspired, will triple the price of pills, putting them beyond the reach of many women...
...counseling for the mother, and extensive parenting classes. But all this is backed up with a none-too-subtle threat of legal intervention. The Women and Infants Clinic program at Boston City Hospital, for instance, takes this approach to helping addicted mothers. Women in the program must submit to random urine tests each week, and they are told that two unexplained absences in a row will trigger an immediate investigation for child neglect...
...more disturbing and puzzling. Who proofreads these reviews? What is the job of the Crimson editor if not to hunt down and destroy such syntactical Jabberwockies? I'm not sure who deserves more rebuke, the writers whose apparently tenuous comprehension of their readership's dominant tongue allowed them to submit these pieces, or the editors, whose carelessness or ignorance led them to print the offensive reviews...
According to Massachusetts law, you have raped someone if you have compelled her to submit to sexual intercourse against her will and by force or threat of bodily injury. This is the very least standard to which we should hold ourselves if we are to be a community characterized by care and respect...