global gag rule n.— «Denying U.S. aid to family planning organizations and imposing a global gag rule will only increase the need for abortion.» —“Int’l Family Planning: Smith Tries Again” Abortion Report June 6, 1997...
brain up v.— «Mr Saumarez Smith, a former academic, believes the answer is not to dumb down, “as the Department for Culture Media and Sport would sometimes seem to like us to do”, but to “brain up.”» —“Museums...
bed-blocker n.— «A former railway worker who paid his taxes and worked hard to put two children through private school, Ray Smith had been languishing in Launceston General Hospital since August, waiting for a bed in a secure dementia...