Word: use
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...language of rape--language that we all use and influence--can be amended for and against the protection of women's rights. Women's rights are currently losing, with the help of network correspondents, State Department personnel, custody judges' clerks, and ordinary viewers and readers like...
...years, Israel has been trying to steer Soviet Jews to the Holy Land, only to have most of them veer off to the U.S. Jerusalem complains that Jews who use exit visas for Israel to get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There...
Smith cited the letters when he offered to use his influence on behalf of at least four corporations, for fees ranging from $1,000 to $4,000. He did not mention that fully 50,000 people had been asked to join the circle in a fund- raising gimmick. After the Washington Post reported Smith's caper, the National Republican Senatorial Committee canceled his circle membership and returned his $1,000. This Mr. Smith did not go to Washington...
...use of pesticides is not vital to the well-being of the agricultural industry. According to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, despite the growers' claims of substantial declines in productivity, the actual difference in yield when no chemical pesticides are used is more in the range of 10-15 percent...
Every time we drive somewhere unnecessarily, every time we eat a meal using styrofoam containers and plastic utensils, every time we use aerosol sprays, every time we pass over slightly discolored apples in the produce section in favor of shiny, pesticide-treated ones, we are increasing the economic incentives for companies to maul the environment...