Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership vacuum of the Democratic Party, it is not hard to explain the loss of nerve and the failure to press a reasoned critique against the Nixon administration. As if Vietnam were not enough to shatter liberal Democrats, the rediscovery of the Middle American working class by Spiro Agnew and Kevin Phillips has almost routed the opposition. George Meany and the unions seem prepared to kiss off the party, leaving the Democrats only a handful of blacks and over-30 academics to represent. The Democratic National Committee is fumbling for a constituency. The recent effort by the party treasurer...
...course they are right in one way-we are expecting them to fill the vacuum that exists in our lives by what we assume to be the fullness of theirs. And yet how few men arewomen "might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely." Not only were they saying that women from minorities need no female companionship so 1200 women is enough while 3000 men is too few, but they were dusting off the familiar tactic of dividing one oppressed group's fight from another...
...hospitals are performing relatively few abortions, although far more than under the old law. In New York City, which enjoys medical home rule, health authorities have been unable to agree on a code. As a result, the city's physicians and hospitals are working in a legal vacuum-but most of them are working. More than 10,500 of the state's legal abortions so far have been performed in the city. Almost half of all the abortions took place in municipal hospitals, where 80% of the operations are free. There have been four deaths, but only...
...believes that the commonly used standard equipment is wrong, since it requires a general anaesthetic for dilatation of the cervix and insertion of relatively large metal tools. Instead, Bergman uses only a local anaesthetic, and none at all in most cases, to permit insertion of a specially designed vacuum-suction tube only one-quarter inch in diameter. The instrument, smaller than those in general use, was developed at a Los Angeles abortion clinic and has been used there for a year. Bergman has performed more than 300 abortions in his office since July 1 by this method with, he says...
...with the failure of many large public school systems to demonstrate anything but Byzantine bureaucracy and underachieving pupils. Making schools responsive to the relentless pressures of economics and competition may be a harsh way to force improvements-but stricter accountability is clearly needed to fill the present vacuum...