Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideologically, geographically, generationally. He may appeal to constituencies where the President is weakest; thus his behavior and outlook will be at variance with the President's. By its nature, the relationship encourages a rather intense rivalry. No President is likely to feel altogether comfortable with the man a heartbeat away from the job he usually covets; and only if the President dies does the Veep fulfill his real function. As John Adams acknowledged when he became Vice President: "I am nothing, but I may be everything." Some Presidents are truly surprised when they discover that their Veep has built...
Working in the weightless environment proved difficult and strenuous; Kerwin's pulse went up as high as 150 beats a minute. "Take it easy," advised Space Veteran Conrad,* whose own heartbeat rose only to 110. While Conrad held the rope to the cutters, Kerwin tried to direct the pole so that the blades hooked around the aluminum strip. "I can't stabilize myself," he complained as he failed again and again. "I just can't do it." Finally, just as the spacecraft was about to make another pass into darkness-which would have forced the astronauts...
...Vice President used to be just a heartbeat away; now he's just a subpoena away...
...ABORTION ISSUE has focused on a definition for the beginning of life. When transplants are performed on the same scale, an adequate definition of death will become just as controversial. The traditional termination of spontaneous heartbeat and breathing simply is not satisfactory. Emergency techniques have brought back many such clinically "dead." At the other extreme is the guideline of a cautious Dr. Maze, who wrote in 1890 that the first signs of decay should precede burial. For transplant purposes, this caution is a little restrictive...
...brain to die slowly, even over a period of years. Perhaps the most expedient standard would be EEG readings showing irreversible damage, but few would have the courage to follow Aristotle Onassis's example of a few months ago in "pulling the plug" on a machine maintaining the heartbeat of an only...