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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although I share the staff's reservations about non-ordered choice, I think the proposal at least merits further examination. To dismiss the widely-supported compromise as merely "political" accomplishes nothing. Perhaps Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will maintain the status quo this year but ask students to fill out an additional non-ordered choice form this spring to use as valid data...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: What's the Rush? | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

There are, of course, two ways to plan a more effective diet: You can research the subject thoroughly, and, working closely with your physician, design a program that combines gradual weightloss with good nutrition and regular exercise. Or you can ask all your friends what they do to lose weight...

Author: By Beckie Sherman, | Title: Losing the Frosh 15 | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...dangers inherent in such complex transplants pose ethical dilemmas for the medical community. University of Chicago ethicists and physicians spent a year discussing whether doctors have the right to ask healthy parents to donate portions of their vital organs, even if it means saving the life of their child. Critics argue that there is no way parents can refuse such a request when under the pressure of having a dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: A Mother's Gift of Life | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...speaks of confederation today, one must ask, On what basis? It would be necessary to have a common foreign policy, a common defense policy. I ask you, Do these conditions exist? We are prepared to leave the Warsaw Pact, if the Federal Republic is prepared to leave NATO. So long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets for colored. If they said yes, then he would say, 'Fill up the tank.' If they said no, he would say thank you and drive on. Once we were outside New Orleans, and this day they said yes, so I jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Less Than Perfect: FAYE WATTLETON | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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