Word: william
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...industry's response was reluctant and myopic, chacterized by stalling techniques, disinformation, and a refusal to pay real attention to damage outside of Prince William Sound," Kelso told the five-member subcommittee of the House Interior Committee...
Exxon faces a Wednesday deadline to have the worst of the oil cleansed from several islands in Prince William Sound, and has promised to clean some 364 miles of coastline by Sept...
...endless argument over abortion came to a critical confrontation. Outside there was a | raucous standoff on the courthouse steps and plaza, where some 200 demonstrators, pro and con, sang, chanted and shouted. Inside, where the noise could not penetrate, the nine Justices were assembled to hear arguments in William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a case that could leave in tatters the pivotal Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973. In both places many of the issues were the same. But inside, though the language was less heated, it had more weight...
Missouri Attorney General William Webster, the first to speak, attempted to minimize the impact of his state's antiabortion law, which declares that life begins at conception and bars the use of public funds and public facilities such as hospitals to perform or assist in an abortion. The statute, which has never gone into effect, would also forbid doctors in publicly funded hospitals to "encourage or counsel" a woman to obtain an abortion. Webster argued that several of the law's provisions would have little impact, implying that the court could uphold them without jeopardizing...
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