Word: welter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial judge, James P. Maguire, only proof that the fetus ever lived outside the mother's body would have legally constituted birth and subjected Edelin to a possible manslaughter conviction. But from the beginning the prosecution's case to prove a live birth rested on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. Both at the trial and at the appeal last April, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his argument in emotionalism. Flanagan could not refute the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside the mother's womb, but he could shout, as he did at the appeal...
...trained to help preserve life, often at any cost. But this institution specializes in taking life. Abortion is a lucrative practice, and the income to be gained from it is undoubtedly an inducement. Yet in a larger sense, the staff allow themselves to become intimately wrapped up in the welter of conflicts faced by their patients. At least technically, their part in the decision to perform an operation can be as difficult and as uncertain as that of the women; medical and legal risks are everpresent and diverse--there is not even a definite consensus as to the period...
...legislation has become more complex (e.g., energy and tax reform), it has become harder to study, formulate and finally pass. In this time of total communication almost any interest group can gain national attention-and most of them do, bringing a welter of pressures that retard the legislative process beyond anything we have seen in previous years...
Carter: From the start of his campaign. Carter has urged a major change. He would replace the entire jerry-built welfare system that hands out money in a welter of ways with one making single payments. Adjusted for cost of living differences around the country, the allotments would largely end the migration of jobless families from areas with low benefits (like Mississippi) to high-paying areas (like New York City). The cities, which now carry part of the welfare burden, would no longer be required to pay anything; the bill would be divided between the Federal Government-the lion...
...welter of museum activity provoked by the Bicentennial seems to have produced only two shows likely to be of lasting value in the study of American culture. One was "The European Vision of America" (TIME, Dec. 12,1975), seen last winter at the National Gallery in Washington. The other-a collection of 153 paintings entitled "The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950"-opened last week at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Organized by MOMA's painting curator Kynaston McShine, it sets out to expose a hidden thread in American art, the umbilical cord that connects...