Word: bre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professor Franklin Zimring. Questions of this kind are often decided outside the courtroom, according to Stanley Price, an attorney who also lectures at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health. Price believes that the Quinlan case has become a cause célèbre mainly because of doctors' growing concern over malpractice suits, which have increased significantly during the past decade. Says Dr. Laurens White of San Francisco: "Karen's luck ran out when the doctor put her on the respirator...Maybe, if she's lucky, she'll have a cardiac...
College officials frankly find the dissident grads a headache ("A pain in the ass is probably closer," says one Stanford administrator). They resent the old grads' tendency to play fast and recklessly with the truth and to make a cause célèbre out of every campus incident. There is also a fear that the grads might sabotage alumni contributions...
...acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. nearly four years ago has long been a financial and political cause célèbre. It was the biggest merger in American corporate history, and has been the subject of furious controversy concerning the circumstances under which the Justice Department settled an antitrust suit that had sought to break up the combination. Last week, after the dispute had finally faded, the Internal Revenue Service suddenly revived it.The IRS had paved the way for the merger in the first place by ruling that the insurance company's owners did not have...
...like to see dramatized about as much as it would enjoy a musical comedy about Watergate. The A.F.I., of course, is an organization funded by the Government, and Stevens holds down a political job. So the movie was yanked, and the distributors had a cause célèbre, along with a lot of publicity of incalculable value...
...Holy Mass is indeed a sacrifice, and what's more, they offer it in the forbidden language of Latin. They hear confessions in private, rather than granting the mass public absolutions that have become de rigueur. These bizarre rituals become an international cause célèbre. Jumbo jets fly in from the States with fervid pilgrims hot for worship in the old way. Television crews arrive to broadcast the phenomenon to the world...