Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governments can treat individuals. He holds each person inviolable. No man may initiate aggression against another man. This arises from the idea that each man's life belongs to himself, that each man owns his own life. Nozick objects to the idea that anyone can be used, without his consent, as a means to someone else's ends...
Allen Drury promises this will be the last of his Advise and Consent novels. That is a mercy. The author's comicbook view of humanity and reflex cold-war xenophobia, as well as the clothespins he calls characters and hangs out on his reactionary line, have long ceased to be amusing targets. Drury, in fact, somewhat resembles those Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender in 1945 and spent 30 years with scorpions and coconuts...
...defies all discourse. It should be noted, however, that The Promise of Joy has nothing to do with cooking or sex. It is about a crisis during the first weeks of the presidency of Orrin Knox, whom Drury readers will remember as the Secretary of State in Advise and Consent, and a vice-presidential nominee in Capable of Honor. In this book Knox succeeds to the presidency after the assassination of Edward M. Jason, and he is called upon to decide nothing less than the fate of Western civilization. After a good deal of messy preliminaries, China and Russia...
...ethicists, only Episcopal Clergyman Joseph Fletcher of Situation Ethics fame justified unlimited experimentation on fetuses that face abortion, if the mother gives her consent. The traditional requirement of "informed consent" for experiments is a thorny one when the subject is a fetus. Ramsey, as well as Georgetown's Father Richard McCormick and Rabbi Seymour Siegel of Jewish Theological Seminary, pointed out that parents have been allowed to give consent for treatment of a child because they have the child's interests at heart. The consent of mothers who plan to have abortions is morally questionable...
Then the SEC filed a civil complaint against Heltzer, Hansen and Cross for falsifying company records; the men settled by signing a consent decree. A fed eral grand jury indicted 3M, Hansen and Cross on charges of tax fraud. That case is still pending. Unpaid taxes on the illegal contributions could cost 3M as much as $9 million...