Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to enjoy retirement with Duane, a soulful, laconic man of 67 who in the past two years has survived four operations and two broken limbs. But Duane is stubborn. His family has been ranching here for more than a century. "I know how I want to die," he says. "Just fall over in my field. That's the best way." Yet he also knows that when his time comes, the couple's three grown children--ranchers who work outside jobs to make ends meet-- could be forced to sell the ranch just to pay the federal estate...
SHOULD HE DIE...
...just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell." But McVeigh will never be a martyr in the truest sense of the word, which comes from the Greek word for witness. It connotes one who testifies for his beliefs with the ultimate passionate guarantee of sincerity and a willingness to die for them. McVeigh stood on his right to silence and did not admit to the bombing or seek to justify it. No one will be converted by his death to an ideology that he did not publicly embrace. No armies will march to the strains of Tim McVeigh's Body...
...attorneys general to consensus. According to the Centers for Disease Control, each day in America 6,000 teenagers light up their first cigarette; 3,000 teens enter the ranks of "regular smokers," meaning they've smoked at least one cigarette a day for a month; and 1,000 adults die prematurely as a direct result of a decision made in adolescence to take up smoking. All told, 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related illnesses. Simply put, argued Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, "we're losing lives every day we don't stop this...
...which protect the right to privacy, will still have the freedom to argue this out individually." Under the unanimous decision today, the Court upheld state laws in New York and Washington that make it a crime for doctors to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who want to die. A November referendum in Oregon on a state law which allows doctor-assisted suicides will be one key testing ground for whether states will still have the freedom to make up their own minds on the issue. As a possible sign of what lies ahead, right-to-die campaign representatives...