Word: domain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view the judicial resolution of this most difficult and awesome question--whether potentially life-prolonging treatment should be withheld from a person incapable of making his own decision--as constituting a 'gratuitous encroachment' on the domain of medical expertise. Rather, such questions of life and death seem to us to require the process of detached but passionate investigation, and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created. Achieving this ideal is our reponsibility and that of the lower court, and is not to be entrusted to any other group purporting to represent the 'morality...
...collapse of a bridge, the crash of the stock market, and the fall of the Roman empire. Yet its subject is not always "catastrophic" in the literal sense: optical scattering, embryonic growth, prison riots, aggressive behavior in dogs, and the rise of the nouveau riche also fall within its domain...
Among the media lords, William S. Paley is senior, successful and powerful, having built CBS into a giant with $3 billion in revenues and a payroll of 37,000. He watched over the growth of CBS News, the domain of Murrow and Cronkite, into the best newsgathering service in radio and television. Executives who make $500,000 a year tremble at his displeasure. Yet just how powerful, by his own lights, is this powerful man? The answer says a lot about the alleged power of the press...
...former chancellor of Makerere University. Under the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front, the group declared that the new government will re-establish democratic principles, including the rule of law and respect for human rights. That would be quite a change for Big Daddy's tormented domain...
...Progressive (circ. 40,000), a respected liberal monthly based in Madison, Wis., had argued that all the material in the article was in the public domain, compiled by a freelance writer who simply read extensively and interviewed numerous experts. Said Progressive Lawyer Earl Munson Jr.: "If Howard Morland can do it, then there is no secret, and the Government is only fooling the public...