Word: halts
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...estimated 10,000 comatose Americans who cannot swallow are now kept alive by feeding tubes, usually inserted into the stomach directly or through the nose. The claim that such patients -- or proxies acting on their behalf -- have the right to halt nutrition was endorsed a year ago by both the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. Seriously debilitated but conscious patients who are unable to swallow are claiming the same right. Last month a Colorado court granted a no-feeding request from a patient who was conscious but paralyzed from the neck down. He died two weeks...
synchronized halt, the evening's sermon began...
...heavy foot traffic, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management has begun reinforcing them with fieldstone and new plantings. But a group of local naturalists, called Walden Forever Wild, contends that to change the pond's setting is to destroy it. The naturalists want Governor Michael Dukakis to put a halt to the renovation and declare the park a sanctuary, with only guided tours permitted. That would restore the pristine conditions Thoreau loved -- but would reduce the number who could share his fascination with a spot that, in his words, radiated "liquid joy and happiness...
...Salinger may not talk much to reporters, but the author of The Catcher in the Rye does talk to his lawyers. Last year he directed them to halt publication by Random House of an unauthorized biography by Ian Hamilton. The reclusive Salinger objected to the book's use of excerpts and summaries from scores of private letters he had written. Last week (a busy one for literary law watchers after the Bell Jar settlement) a Manhattan federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the book "in its present form...
When the craft finally skids to a halt at the bottom of the humongous Eastman-Kodak screen, fog bubbles up from the floor of the theater, and olfactory stimuli (Blown circuits, melted metal, Vicks Vapor Rub) tingle the audience's orgiastically flaring nostrils. Honest: Huxley's Feelies are alive and well and playing every hour on the hour (even as you read this) in the heart of Central Florida...