Word: consent
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That way, University could not use the giftuntil the women gave their consent...
...combat this problem, people have tried to jump the gun and introduce many ways of promoting organ donation. Several of these solutions are quite drastic and far-reaching, even to the point of changing the Constitution. Three methods include compensation for donations, non-monetary compensation for donation and presumed consent. Unfortunately, these methods have not been shown to work. There are problems with each, should they ever come to be implemented...
...Presumed consent has its own ethical dilemmas, stemming from using people's apathy to its advantage. Presumed consent assumes that people had wished to donate their organs unless they had previously registered their objection to their organs being transplanted after their deaths. The plan counters the apathy of the many who would have become donors but had never gotten around to signing the forms. The method has been tried in Belgium and substantially increased the number of donors...
...meet the Bosnian demands with or without consent of the U.N., which has withheld approval of NATO airstrikes precisely because the Serbs have retaliated by taking U.N. hostages. At an Oval Office meeting today, White House advisers said they would ask a crucial, six-nation meeting Friday in London for unilateral permission tostep up NATO attackson the Serb positions and a new command structure that bypasses the U.N. The White House is also considering a European request to broaden the U.S. military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister...
Hard times: first 14-year-old MACAULAY CULKIN hit "that awkward age"; now his parents are splitting up. Mother Patricia Brentrup has been granted temporary custody of six of the children she had with Kit Culkin. Brentrup claims Culkin is jeopardizing the children's careers by withholding his consent for them to work in movies...