Word: assisted
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Freshman Liz Berkery assisted Karen Everling on a reverse bounce shot with 21 minutes left in the game. But the freshmen on the squad did more than assist, much more. Freshman Tara Uhler scored on a foul shot at the 15-minute mark, while the other young players who came in had a major impact defensively. "The important thing was that everyone got a chance to play," said Joslin. "The freshmen were incredible...
...Karen Ann Quinlan case, 50 courts in 17 states have considered the right to have treatment withdrawn. Nearly all have come down on the side of privacy and limited the power of the government to dictate medical care. In a peculiar legal irony, many states make it illegal to assist in suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court...
...with preparations for the multiparty March 25 parliamentary elections in which the Forum, a right-center coalition linking nationalistic writers and the provincial middle class, is expected to run strongly. The headquarters also has some foreign visitors: two groups of well- intentioned but slightly befuddled American politicians eager to assist Hungary in its transition to democracy...
Even as Congress and the Administration debate ways to assist the fledgling free nations that were once part of the Soviet orbit, the implicit assumption is that the U.S., with its sophisticated political systems, can again serve as the arsenal of democracy. From the Philippines in 1986 to Nicaragua last month, no one can gainsay the worth of impartial poll watchers and international inspection teams. But there is also a missionary strain in the American psyche that can inadvertently trample on foreign customs and cultures under the guise of strengthening democratic institutions. As the Hungarian experience suggests, democracy...
Well-intentioned but slightly befuddled, American politicians rush to assist Hungary in its transition to democracy. -- East Germany's Modrow is the lamest of lame ducks. -- The contras and the Sandinistas balk at demobilization...