Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CENTRAL thesis that we must stop pushing birth control and permanent fertility on Third World populations is a problematic one. Greer has provided ample documented evidence that all too often governments force people to undergo operations against their will, and that even in the United States some women are compelled to undergo sterilization against their wishes or when they do not comprehend the consequences. Although there is a strong case for restraint in effecting mass sterilization, the claim that all peoples east of Europe want all or most of the children they bear is absurd. And to claim that Western...
...years ago, Harvard requested that the 60-unit building he removed from rent control so that it could undergo full structural rehabilitation...
...School will undergo two administrative changes when A. Simone Reagor will step down from her post as director of research administration for the University to become the administrative dean of the Law School, and Paul W. Upson will become assistant dean for finance and operations...
...site of the 1988 Summer Games, certainly would seem to offer a tempting target if East-West political tensions do not ease; it is the capital of a nation that the Soviet Union and many other Communist countries do not recognize. And will world-class athletes be willing to undergo the grueling four-year grind of training for the Olympics, if they face a constant threat of having their chance to compete taken away at the last moment...
...ritual seems strange. Things just aren't done that way any more. Not even in Chad, where ten years ago President Ngarta Tombalbaye ordered all high government officials to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual combining physical abuse (e.g., flogging, mock burial) with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey...