Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottle up restrictive bills in committees, and if they fail, their allies will argue in court that a 1980 amendment to the state constitution spelling out a right of privacy applies to abortion. Whatever happens, both sides agree that the 1990 gubernatorial and legislative elections are likely to turn into a single-issue referendum on abortion. Says Janis Compton-Carr, director of the Florida Abortion Rights Action League: "It's going to be bloody...
...black life less sacred than white life? he asks. Why do blacks need the "stamp of approval" of whites to feel affirmed? Why are his films lumped together as black, when each one examines a distinctly different aspect of the human condition? Looking for racism at every turn, he finds...
...hours with 500 other passengers in an area which was once a restroom. We'll sit the plane on the runway for three hours and tell you repeatedly that takeoff will be `in five minutes.' We'll smile and give you a dish labelled `chicken' which will really turn out to be rotting meat...
...Though England is his base and spiritual home, he prefers the convenience and anonymity of large hotels and jetliners where, 30,000 ft. above the chaos, he can clasp a pillow to his stomach, insist that "reading is too important to do on airplanes" and begin once again to turn high anxiety into high...
Never to be outdone, lawmakers on Capitol Hill joined the hysterical chorus. In an extraordinary all-night session, House members of both parties waited their turn to fulminate about the flag decision. Though Democratic leaders ! want to bottle up the measure in committee, Bush's language would become the Constitution's 27th Amendment if two-thirds of both houses of Congress adopt the measure and 37 states vote to ratify...