Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...
...feeding may present a different issue, one with which experts on ethics, especially Catholics, are currently struggling. Is a surgically implanted nourishment tube similar to optional forms of medical technology, or is it more akin to the simple providing of food and water for the sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican...
...such a system must assure that we spend as a nation an "appropriate" amount, relative to other needs and wants, on health care. A national health insurance system--with a much larger administrative role for the individual states than earlier versions of NHI called for, a setup somewhat akin to the Canadian system--with expenditure limits would meet our needs...
...around the world last week, the mood in money markets was akin to panic. The dollar dropped to a six- year low against the West German mark and fell precipitously against the Japanese yen. Behind the sell- off loomed the mammoth U. S. trade deficit. -- An important study argues that U. S. export controls on high technology do not work properly and hurt American business...
...throughout Europe and in Israel, ranging from a Rigoletto in Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting through the air on a swing, to an expressionistic version of Pushkin's Little Tragedies in both Stockholm and Bologna. But his career, however thriving, involves painful artistic detachment, akin to a nuclear scientist's working through a glove...