Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vilma DiBiase, director of counseling at the Crittenton Clinic in Boston, said that despite anti-abortionists' arguments that most women experience long-term trauma after getting abortions at her clinic did. Those who did, she said, are those who felt coerced into having the operation...
...sense, the war in Viet Nam has dictated American political life for a generation. But for the war, Johnson might have served two terms. He might have made his Great Society work, or at least work better than it ultimately did, with program after program collapsing under the burden of unfocused - goals, unbridled spending and unbelievable bureaucratic bloat. He might have been succeeded by, say, Robert Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along...
...February. The plan ripped into every domestic spending program (except Social Security), but it provided the Pentagon with a spending increase of nearly 6% over inflation. Unless deep cuts could be made, annual deficits projected at well above $200 billion loomed over the rest of Reagan's term. The Senate Budget Committee, controlled by the Republicans, responded with a plan that included less drastic domestic cuts offset by , savings from holding the military to a "zero growth rate...
...last Harvard degree holder in space was Harrison J. Schmidt, who earned a Harvard Ph.D in geology in 1961 and walked on the moon in December 1972 as a member of the Apollo 17 crew. After leaving NASA, Schmidt served one term as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico...
...active in the Bok of 1969 will steer him away from sustaining apartheid, and back to himself. Bok was not an opportunist in 1969. His response was not just astute, it was fresh and genuine and it made him the only possible choice for president. Let Bok end his term as president as honorably as he began its he still has that chance...