Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost all semiautomatics, and there is a considerable demand for that service. Since 1934 federal law has made full automatics, such as machine guns, difficult to buy for anyone except police, the military and licensed collectors. A private purchaser has to obtain both federal and state licenses and undergo a rigorous federal background check...
DURING an episode of "Family Ties," big brother Alex P. Keaton, the self-proclaimed genius of the family, forced younger sister Jennifer to undergo a neurotic academic experience, convincing her to read volumes of case law and dress as the Statue of Liberty for her seventh grade oral report on "How a Bill Becomes...
...inventing the Pledge of Allegiance issue, the Willie Horton scare, the A.C.L.U. attacks. All were leftovers from the Robertson campaign. Bush had been criticized as a "lapdog" early in 1987 when he courted the religious right, calling himself a "born again" Christian. It was assumed that he had to undergo these rituals, but that he would move to the center after surviving the Kemp challenge. What Ailes and his campaign allies did was take the Robertson base and build on it, incorporating all its major themes...
...sections. At the same time, the case against the surgical procedure has mounted. Caesarean sections carry all the risks of major surgery, including complications associated with anesthesia, blood transfusions and infection, especially of the uterus. The incidence of maternal mortality is twice as high for women who undergo repeat caesareans, and infants are at increased risk for respiratory problems and distress caused by anesthesia given to the mother. On balance, the benefits of vaginal deliveries after C-sections have long outweighed the advantages of surgical births. Says R. Harold Holbrook Jr., director of maternal-fetal medicine at the Stanford Medical...
...Purdue University poll, the first of its kind, predictably revealed general willingness to undergo the rigors of campaigning. But many spouses and children of politicians are increasingly admitting that they feel trapped in the roles the public pushes them to fill. Children, of course, are among the most affected. After their father was selected as George Bush's running mate, the three children of Indiana Senator Dan Quayle saw him harshly criticized for, among other things, avoiding duty in Viet Nam. They were knocked down by TV cameramen and questioned about their father's rumored involvement with former Playboy model...