Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outset of the bargain. He and his wife want a baby, and here is the clean, modern, technologically miraculous way to get one. What he does not take into account is that he is engaging someone to feel sensations on behalf of him and his wife that properly belong only to him and his wife. What seems so easy mechanically turns out to be an impossibility, yet the sanctioning by contract obfuscates the reality. Instead of a simple deal, he has swung a deal whose complications are infinite, and infinitely surprising; they are not in anyone's control...
...they were dealing with, any more than Faust had a claim to the soul he dealt the Devil. Stern is certainly not the Devil, and Baby M. is not Whitehead's soul. But the emotions that were being traded have a soul-like sanctity in the sense that they belong to the mysteries of the species and are commonly shared. This is what the Vatican suggested when it recently condemned all artificial practices regarding birth, and one does not have to agree with that blanket condemnation to appreciate its basis. Whatever Stern and Whitehead thought their pact was about, they...
...leader, the Rev. Arthur Borden, admits that loss of such accreditation has no impact on an agency. Of the biggest TV evangelists, only Billy Graham, who does not have a weekly series, is a member in good standing. The National Religious Broadcasters, to which most of the big operations belong, is toughening its ethical code and creating a voluntary agency to accredit broadcasters' ethics...
Unlike San Antonio Gardens, many life-care communities belong to large chains. The biggest provider is Life Care Services of Des Moines, a subsidiary of Weitz Corp., which has managed or developed more than 50 communities nationwide. The Mediplex Group, owned by Avon, has 19 facilities either completed or in the works, largely in California, Arizona and Pennsylvania. Marriott, which is best known for its hotels, has invested $150 million in three projects now under way in Haverford, Pa., Fort Belvoir, Va., and San Ramon, Calif. The company plans to build six more life-care communities by the early 1990s...
...pipes. Remembers Britton: "It took me three years to get my first set." Once he had them, though, he learned quickly and, by the age of 16, had resolved to become a pipemaker himself. That he did, with great success. Like children, bagpipes always belong, in a sense, to those who brought them into the world. Thus, while some of the musicians show off Kennedy's pipes, or Quinn's, about a quarter of those present boast a set of "Timmy's pipes...