Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas, sponsored by the local unit of the National Organization for Women, more than 100 women saw a 30-minute videotape that showed how the procedure is performed with a $90 kit containing a glass jar, plastic tubing and a special syringe. "We're being realistic," says Charlotte Taft, an abortion-clinic director who spoke at the meeting. "When abortion becomes illegal, not many physicians will risk losing their licenses. If I have a choice between going to a group of caring women I trust or a stranger, then I'll take the women...
Somebody on the Taft University basketball team is shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort...
...independence. But it did so grudgingly, unconvinced that those systems would hold. Expansionist Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge, for example, proclaimed, "What alchemy will change the oriental quality of their blood, and set the self-governing currents of the American pouring through their Malay veins?" With misdirected liberality, William Howard Taft, the first civilian governor of the islands, referred to Filipinos as "little brown brothers." Privately, he thought Filipinos would take at least 50 to 100 years to learn "Anglo-Saxon liberty...
Tower, meanwhile, met at the White House withBush, Adm. William Crowe and Deputy DefenseSecretary William H. Taft IV, who is serving asacting defense secretary...
...professor tells us whether he needs mostly computer facilities or a wet lab," Taft says. "We have a varied department, and the professors have very different needs which are expressed when they join the faculty...