Word: waited
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Each day more than 60 women pass through the clinic. Almost half are under 22, all but a third are single, more than a third are Catholics who come despite their church's adamant opposition to abortion. They wait, go for blood and urine tests, and wait some more. For most, the visit takes four to five hours, the abortion itself only two to three minutes. It costs about...
First, there was the rain-soaked fourth game of the playoffs, a contest that should be expunged from the annals of the sport. And then came those three inglorious shots in the New York night. I can hardly wait for the race for the flags...
Carter's proposed $25 billion cut in income taxes would offset next year's Social Security increase. But anxious Congressmen and Senators feel they cannot wait until the bill reaches the floor of the House, probably by June. Last week O'Neill urged the White House to take the initiative in rolling back the Social Security tax boost. Said he: "They had better move, because if they don't, Congress will." Afterward, Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat asked the Treasury Department to submit a list of alternative revenue sources to Carter this week. Said a Treasury official...
Gore Vidal cannot wait. His latest novel is an apocalyptical extravaganza that craftily combines feminism, homosexuality, mysticism, science fiction, fiction science, the second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind...
Hackett may have to wait until Saturday's 1650-yd. freestyle, his strongest event, for a shot at his first NCAA title, however, as a pair of Olympic gold medalists--Long Beach State's Tim Shaw (4:21.19) and UCLA's Brian Goodell--grabbed the two middle lanes (indicative of the top two seeds) with their swims in the prelims...