Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others since it started work three years ago, concludes that a competent patient, one who is able to understand treatment choices and their consequences, has the all-but-absolute right to decide his own fate. Declares Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and principal author of the report: "An adult person of sound mind has authority over his own body." When a person is incompetent, says the report, a surrogate, usually a family member, should be named to make treatment decisions. The commission urges courts and legislatures for the most part to stay away. "The resolution of these issues," says...
...education; and the Human Development, Reading and Counseling program, which focuses more on developing programs to aid student advancement in the schooling. Gaspar takes the normal TCLE courseload of four courses, which he says centers on qualitative research and actual classroom interaction. Two of Gaspar's courses involve adult development and ethnography...
...adult development course meets in a two-hour lecture every Friday afternoon with a one-hour section during the week. Harry M. Lasker, lecturer on Education, faces the unusually large class--more than 70 students who scrawl down notes from his casually delivered lecture. The students frequently interrupt Lesser's presentation with questions and Lesser leaves time at the end of the two hours to field any other questions the students might have...
When women, who make up 56% of Magnum 's adult audience, began pushing the show up the charts, the network cry went out for more muscle, and producers began asking for "Tom Selleck clones." Where to find them? In the men's fashion magazines and in TV commercials, of course; no one forgot that Selleck became widely known through the commercials for Chaz men's cologne. Dark-haired Jack Scalia, 32, the man who was exposed in the Jordache jeans ads and overexposed in Eminence shorts, was recruited for the short-lived Devlin Connection and then...
...white crossovers to Epton, Washington remains the clear favorite. Wrote Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko after the upset: "Eeek, the next mayor of Chicago is going to be a black man. Let's all quiver and shake. Oh, come on. Let's all act like sensible, adult human beings."- By Susan Tifft. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chlcago