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...heavily doped that they are virtually in a stupor, hospices usually administer methadone or a special mixture that may include morphine, cocaine, alcohol and syrup. Even before the pain begins to be extreme, the mix is given in relatively small quantities at various intervals around the clock. This helps allay the fear of pain and reduces the amount of drugging necessary to control it. One desired result: to keep the patient's mind as clear as possible...
...regulations is question were established in the first place only because companies like Mobil had ignored environmental concerns and left strip-mined areas looking like lunar wastelands. In any case, the position itself was clear: "At a time when the public is being asked to make sacrifices to help allay America's energy crisis, shouldn't the government trim some of its red tape?" The undeniable implication was that environmental concerns were just not very important during an energy crisis...
...constitution might have been more acceptable, if less politically feasible, a decade ago, when the unyielding stance of the National Party had a broader base of white popular support. To succeed now, the government will have to allay suspicion by coloreds that it is only trying to capture them in a subservient position within a white fortress and (far more difficult) overcome black hostility to any system that denies them representation...
Central Brain. The U.S.S.R. had been seeking to buy the Cyber 76 from its manufacturer, California-based Control Data Corp., for three years. The announced use: a United Nations-sponsored, worldwide weather-forecasting system. Control Data had eagerly sought the necessary Commerce Department export license. To allay fears that the computer might be diverted to military purposes, the company pledged that its own technicians would tend the machine, which would be programmed to cry foul at the first attempt to alter its mission...
...Fianna Fáil government would repolarize the situation in Ulster by stirring up suspicions among its Protestant majority. Fianna Fáil favors eventual withdrawal of British forces from Northern Ireland and peaceful reunification of North and South, while the Fine Gael downplays unification and seeks to allay Protestant fears...