Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course arises when it would be possible for you to support him and take care of him, but you would rather not. You might agree if the demand were only for an evening, but hesitate if it were for the rest of your life. Do rights then depend upon the time factor? You could claim a certain moral responsibility towards another human being. But it is hard to say that he has the right to force you to support him. You are not legally required to help an old lady across the street...
...Repeal of Abortion Laws), the bill is under injunction and pending review by the Federal District Court on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that all medically necessary services must be available to the poor. As of last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother. Legislation restricting abortions to hospitals with full obstetrical care (rather than women's health clinics), now before the Massachusetts House, could place the woman in a double bind. Also under Massachusetts debate is an "Informed Consent" bill which essentially amounts...
...adult population were monks or nuns. In his travels through Tibet. Harrer noted that there were no public inns. Tibetans opened their homes to all travelers, he wrote, as if grateful for the opportunity to serve. Harrer encountered niches of subtropical vegetation growing amidst snow-covered montains, monasteries built upon seemingly inaccessible cliffs, and mediums who, in trance, bent swords with their minds alone. Perhaps most significant, however, was his observation that Tibet had no police force, and no standing army...
...Upon reaching the house, the monks greeted the owners, a farmer and his wife, and requested some tea. As they sat in the kitchen a two-year-old boy ran into the room and hopped onto a monk's lap. The boy correctly called the disguised traveler "a lama of Sera," and identified two other members of his party as well. The child, named Tenzin Gyatso, spoke to the lamas in the court dialect of Lhasa, unknown to anyone in his district...
...most turbulent reaction came from the economists. Called upon to use their science to explain one of its most unsettling real-world applications, they broke ranks in characteristic confusion, and gave the nation nothing more than a picture of academe at its worst--a group of grown men playing with charts, tables and numbers, more interested in defending their own theories and schools of thought than in helping the nation understand its economic agony...