Word: courting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stymied in a drive to win four seats on the board of Koito Manufacturing, a Tokyo auto-parts maker in which he controls a 20% share. Pickens says Koito has hired Wall Street consultants to advise the company on how to keep him at bay. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last August reinstated a class-action suit that Phillips Petroleum shareholders brought against Pickens in 1984. The plaintiffs claim that the value of their stock collapsed when Pickens abruptly abandoned his Phillips takeover...
...Supreme Court takes up the case of Nancy Cruzan and considers for the first time whether a family may stop the artificial sustenance of a helplessly ill and totally unaware patient...
This week the family will direct its plea to the U.S. Supreme Court, and for the first time draw the nation's highest court into the murky legal and ethical seas that surround the notion of a right to die. What the Justices decide will directly affect Cruzan. It will also set some legal boundaries for addressing the plight of the 10,000 other people in the U.S. lingering in a persistent vegetative state. Ultimately, the ruling could have an impact on the 7 out of 10 Americans who can someday expect to confront questions of life-sustaining medical care...
...Cruzan case dramatically evokes many of the primal emotions and fundamental uncertainties of life, death and love. Even the simple question at the heart of the Cruzan case -- who is to decide on ending a life -- defies an easy answer. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last year that the state must decide. And in Cruzan's case, the court concluded, the state's interest in preserving life was not offset by any clear or convincing evidence of Nancy Cruzan's own wishes or by any demonstration that the feeding tube was "heroically invasive" or burdensome. "We choose...
...including helpless patients -- against unwarranted bodily intrusions by the state, and that a loving family is the best surrogate to decide what medical course an incompetent relative would choose. In 1983 a presidential medical- ethics commission endorsed the principle of family surrogate decision making, and so have many state courts since the 1976 landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court permitted the Quinlan family to remove her from a respirator. Although who decides and what proof is required have differed, most state courts have found a way to accommodate those who seek...