Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...useful human being. What he was referring to are the questions raised by the extraordinary and expensive advances of medical technology, and the fact that society must attempt to allocate its resources in the most ethical and fair way. He wasn't suggesting that old people exit en masse, but rather that it is time for doctors to reevaluate the circumstances under which they will prolong the dying process for terminal patients. It is time that doctors reconsidered the validity of the wishes of terminal patients who simply do not want to extend their lives artificially. An article published recently...
...Church assumed its sanctuary role temporarily on March 23, when it provided dinner, services, and shelter in the church building to eight Guatemalan refugees. The family was en route to their new home, a Benedictine priory in Weston...
...other big winner was Jesse Jackson. By turning out the black vote en masse, he came within one percentage point of overtaking Hart's stalled campaign. Yet Hart outspent Jackson on political advertising $800,000 to zero. It was an extraordinary showing by the charismatic civil rights leader. He won well over 80% of the black vote, as well as the respect he demands from white Democratic leaders. They will have to listen very carefully when Jackson asks a price for the several hundred delegates he expects to bring to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco this July...
...June 1, 1982, aboard Air Force One en route to Europe for a ten-day diplomatic visit, President Reagan broke his reading glasses. I lent him a pair of my own, and he discovered that he could see perfectly well with them. "That proves it, Mr. President-we have the same vision." We laughed, but by the end of the trip I saw with final clarity that however similar our views might be on certain issues, we were hopelessly divided on others, and the confident personal relationship that might have bridged this difference would always be denied to Reagan...
...really meant to delay for two days, inasmuch as the point at issue involved a war that was daily claiming hundreds of lives. Clark assured me that this was, hi fact, the President's decision. Astonished, I phoned Reagan at Camp David and explained that Habib was already en route to Damascus to keep an appointment with Syrian President Assad; he simply could not wait. When Reagan responded, I detected a note of puzzlement in his voice. He knew nothing about the instructions to Habib, and I gained the impression that he had not even received them...