Word: consented
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Those meetings, where officials compared and adjusted financial aid awards for individual students, halted in May 1991 after the eight Ivy schools signed a consent decree agreeing to end cooperation and discussion on tuition, financial aid and faculty salaries...
...civilians. Over the past month, a frightening array of nuclear experiments have come to light, including large-scale medical tests involving hundreds of patients. A series published in the Albuquerque Tribune detailed one experiment in which 18 people were injected with high concentrations of plutonium, apparently without their full consent. In another test, 800 pregnant women were exposed to radioactive iron in order to investigate its effects on fetal development. The testicles of 67 inmates at an Oregon state prison were exposed to X rays to determine how radiation might alter sperm production...
...proposed modification of the consent decree signed by the eight Ivy League schools with the Bush Justice Department would allow the schools to agree ongeneral principles for measuring need, and permitthem to share some financial data before awardingfinancial aid, according to the Boston Globe...
...cost effective," intone the bean counters. Let's count. Take, for example, a suggestion by the highly regarded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that hospitals be required to ask patients whose blood is already being tested whether they would consent to having it tested for HIV as well. The test costs $60 or less and routinely identifies many who were unaware they had the virus. If those who are thus identified were to transmit the disease to only one less person on average, the suggested tests would pay for themselves much more readily than a coronary bypass, PSA tests...
...asked if there were any objections to a compromise worked out behind closed doors by Republican and Democratic leaders anxious to finish one last piece of legislation. No one said a word. So Vice President Al Gore, presiding, declared that "the Brady bill has been passed" -- theoretically by "unanimous consent" of the three remaining Senators. Bill Clinton hailed the move as a "wonderful Thanksgiving present...