Word: wading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, many baseball players are very good. Andre Dawson would be a bona fide superstar if it weren't for Don Mattingly and Wade Boggs. Dawson knows that even if he hits 30 home runs, he'll still be only one of many excellent players...
...task force spent $200,000 on a VAX minicomputer and then spent more than two years pumping more than a million bits of information into it. A specially designed software program helps detectives wade through crushing amounts of data on suspects, police tip sheets and details of similar homicides elsewhere in the country. Says Crime Analysis Supervisor Chuck Winters: "The computer is the heart of the investigation. But it's old- fashioned police work that will solve this case...
...wrote the 1973 Roe vs. Wade opinion that said women in most circumstances cannot be barred from having abortions...
That view makes Bork unsympathetic to the court's 1973 pronouncement in Roe v. Wade of a right to abortion -- he has called Roe an "unconstitutional decision" -- and unsupportive of arguments favoring a right to homosexual conduct. Conversely, since the Constitution explicitly mentions the death penalty, Bork believes the court cannot forbid...
Abortion. The 7-to-2 majority upholding a woman's right to abortion in the original Roe v. Wade case of 1973 shrank to only 5-to-4 in a June 1986 ruling reaffirming that decision, with Powell in the majority both times. The deciding vote in future cases might be cast by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has indicated a willingness to countenance restrictions on abortion but not necessarily to overturn Roe entirely. Proponents of abortion rights fear the worst. Said Kate Michelman, of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "We believe the right to choose a safe...