Word: surround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literal end-points of that decision--the clinics--is symptomatic of an irresponsible evasion of the more complicated social conditions which have brought women to these facilities in the first place--an evasion of the fact (some might say necessity) of abortion in this society. The social circumstances which surround abortion range from broad historical and economic patterns (such as the increased role of women in the work force and the marked decrease of family size in urban industrialized societies) to those conditions which more obviously relate to abortion in the United States today (such as the inadequacy...
Rarely, apart from assassinations of the famous, has the act of a single anonymous person caused such a stir. Mild-mannered Bernhard Goetz gets on a New York City subway. Four young toughs surround him, asking first for a match, next a cigarette, then $5. He pulls a gun, shoots them all, two in the back. He runs away, then nine days later turns himself in. The town goes wild for him. Dubbed the subway vigilante, he is the talk, the toast, of every radio call-in show from Miami to San Diego. The outpouring of popular support becomes...
RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA (Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political parables...
...central plane, it may collide with one of the massive dust clouds. While the cloud itself would have little graviational effect on the earth or the sun, its gravitational pull would. The strong lure would perturb the Oort cloud--a vast spherical shell of trillions of icy particles which surround the solar system...
...river's flow. In the project's second phase, they will begin dumping dirt into six miles of the channel once so carefully scooped out. If all goes well over the next 15 years, the river will gradually rise and engulf the artificially dry plains that surround it, transforming them back to the lush, mosquito-ridden swamps they were for hundreds of thousands of years...