Word: without
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What does Seattle want? In 1977 Seattle became the first major city to adopt busing to integrate its schools without being forced to do so by a court. On Nov. 7 it became the first city in the Northwest to elect a black mayor: Democratic Councilman Norm Rice, who campaigned strongly against an antibusing referendum proposal called Save Our Schools. Yet after absentee ballots were counted last week, it turned out that the voters had also approved the nonbinding S.O.S. measure by 1,135 votes...
...Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
...cells that control voluntary movement. Victims suffer from the shakes, muscle stiffness and poor balance; eventually, many become totally disabled. Standard treatment for Parkinson's has relied on giving patients levodopa. But the drug, which supplies remaining brain cells with a vital chemical, simply tempers the disease's symptoms without affecting its progress. Even worse, the medication soon becomes ineffective. For that reason, doctors wait as long as possible after the disease is diagnosed before prescribing levodopa...
...Union will subsidize." Since then the pace of change in Eastern Europe has accelerated so quickly that the F.M.L.N. may be worried that it will be forgotten by its Communist patrons. Toward that end, the F.M.L.N. may have been reminding both the Cristiani and Bush administrations that with or without foreign Communist support, the guerrillas must be part of any eventual settlement...
Credit for the smoother performance goes to Foley and Minority Leader Robert Michel. Last winter Foley watched former Speaker Jim Wright fumble painfully as he tried to sneak a raise through the House without a vote. Wright's clumsiness on the issue helped push him from power in May. Foley took office promising his rank and file he would bring the pay raise to the House floor again this year. But he was determined to do things differently...