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...cost-effectiveness and almost fool-proof nature of Norplant has attracted the attention of public officials, who are interested in lowering the pregnancy rate of individuals who rely heavily on public assistance or are likely to be unfit parents. Children born to criminal or drug-dependent parents are statistically at high risk of becoming costly burdens to society as well...
Some students may have decided to keep a special "gross anatomy" outfit in their locker outside the lab, feeling that clothes are unfit to be worn after eight weeks of formaldehyde saturation...
...points by Election Day. Thomases' fear: complacency bred by favorable numbers might lead to a November surprise. George Bush's analysts, meanwhile, were also studying the 1976 figures. Their hope: Bush can duplicate Ford's comeback -- and then some -- by painting a small-state Southern Governor as unfit to run the nation...
...practiced law for a living -- Baker has always been charmed by courtroom analogies. "At the presidential level," he explained, "the stakes are so high, and are seen as so high by the voters, that the trick is to cause people to view your opponent as somehow 'guilty,' as being unfit for the top. Especially if you're the incumbent, if you create just a reasonable doubt about the challenger, he's convicted...
...irony of 1992 is the effort to paint Perot as a flake--a man whose on-again/off-again routine makes him unfit for office. But, after months of bad-mouthing Perot, Bush and Clinton rushed to court his supporters the instant he bowed...