Word: dealt
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...measure of the system is whether it serves as an early-warning system for potentially fatal flaws. This year the least able of the contenders have been dealt with swiftly. Jack Kemp's economic unorthodoxy clearly hampered his campaign. Pat Robertson's loose-lipped irresponsibility did little for his hopes. Last week Bob Dole paid the price for his inability to organize a campaign, presaging a potentially important flaw as President...
...fourth day of testimony before a federal jury on a discrimination suit against Harvard, witnesses for plaintiff Charlotte Walters said the University had dealt unfairly with her and with her union...
...thinks that a stroke of a president's pen could heal the wounds that have developed at the Law School over the years. But a few choice words from Bok could have dealt realistically with the factors that went into the Dalton decision and spurred a long-overdue faculty discussion on tenure...
...question of whether to end life should not have been dealt with in the hasty way that Debbie's resident did. A doctor's first priority (remember the Hippocratic oath) is always to save life--the problem is in defining what life is and whether a patient has any choice in ending it. The AMA must take a stand and establish a clear definition of life, and under what circumstances a physician can withhold life-prolonging treatment. Unless such guidelines are laid down, a tragic occurrence such as Debbie's induced death may again occur through the efforts of other...
WASHINGTON. After Vivienne McPherson's common-law husband was murdered in a shootout with rival drug dealers, she decided to take over his business. For four months she dealt crack out of her apartment at 2840 Robinson Place, in the rough southeast district. Then, in the words of a vice cop, she "messed up the money." A local Jamaican posse made her pay for the transgression. It was bad enough that McPherson, nine months pregnant, had been pumped with eight bullets while her neighbors watched, says a federal agent. But what really sickened the lawman is that "three...