Word: explicitness
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...patients would be allowed to die in hospitals and has hoped that doctors would practice certain forms of euthanasia, says Dr. Alexander Leaf, who as Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine directs medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Where society has abdicated, he says, is in failing to give explicit approval to the practice or in defining just which patients should be allowed...
...committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill at Mass General should be commended for its efforts to produce explicit guidelines for doctors when deciding such cases. Its recommendations, which were accepted by the hospital in September, advise that patients whose brains do not function and who show no prospect of recovery should be taken off expensive life support measures. The report argues that if a patient has no brain function--even if he breathes and has a pulse--he is dead. The committee accepted as its criteria for death the Harvard standard, developed by a committee at the Medical...
Schneider is more explicit about Hall's role. "It's a one-man operation," Schneider says. "He owns it. He runs it. He's the works, everything. When he goes, it goes." Schneider says Hall inherited the school from his father...
Singer's new production is aptly named. At 71, the author remains one of the least explicit but most sexually charged of modern writers. In Old Love, an ancient millionaire rediscovers his amatory instincts-only to have his young mistress plunge from a window. In The Witch, an ungainly schoolgirl enchants a repressed intellectual until at last he seizes her, "a witch drenched in blood and semen, a monster that the rising sun transformed into a beauty...
What is that supposed to mean? Officials of A. & P. and McCann-Erickson Inc., which created the campaign, admit that they have trouble putting the idea into more explicit words. But if stated bluntly, the message might go something like this: A. & P.'s three-year WEO ("Where Economy Originates") drive was a disastrous blunder. The chain went all out to undercut competitors' prices at the expense of quality; brand-name goods became scarce on the shelves, and many stores were allowed to become dirty. Result: customers abandoned A. & P. in droves for rival chains...