Word: woman
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Witteman and Sportswriter B.J. Phillips, who wrote the story, both belong to TIME'S softball team, which plays in Central Park and so far has been undefeated this year. Phillips is one of the nation's few top-notch woman sportswriters. A baseball devotee since she was little, she used to write fan letters to Willie Mays. "It's hard to explain why you love baseball without sounding like a professor or a 10-year-old kid," says Phillips. "A case can be made for the mental elegance of the game-its beauty, its symmetry, its exquisite...
...justice and the director of the California department of transportation are women- as are 541 other Brown appointees. Reforms do not end with quotas. Once bastions of professional courtesy, the states regulatory boards are being filled with ordinary citizens. The medical board's vice-president is a black woman auto worker. A tough coastal commission protects what remains of California's 840-mile coastline. A new law freezing the state's agricultural acreage will halt the untamed growth of suburbs. Smog is down 50% in the L.A. basin because of stiff fines and surveillance. Two-thirds...
...makes plans to bunt even as he drives to the ballpark. His technique is far more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher...
...majority of the court chose to look at the matter in strictly legal terms. The Connecticut law in question, according to the majority opinion, "places no obstacles--absolute or otherwise--in the pregnant woman's path to an abortion... The indigency that may make it more difficult--and, in some cases, perhaps, impossible--for some women to have abortions is neither created nor in any way affected by the Connecticut regulation." Medicaid programs are designed expressly to insure minimum standards of health care for the poor, but the court ignored that fact completely. In effect, as dissenting Justice Harry...
...majority of Americans believe abortion should be available on demand, and it is hard to believe that they would refuse to see Medicaid funds used for this purpose. But that majority has been silent since 1973, while the so-called right to lifers--who seem willing to ignore the woman's right to determine the course of her own life--have made a great deal of noise. Unless it starts making its position clear, the majority may find it has been overruled in Massachussetts; and the families who are on Medicaid may find themselves facing a whole new kind...