Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helpless feeling lingered for several months. No one heard anything about a court date for Marina's assailant, and when I came back to school in February I felt little had changed since August...
Though most states let parents or guardians make such decisions according to their best judgment, New York, Maine and Missouri demand "clear and convincing evidence" -- such as a living will. Mount Vernon, Mo., happens to be where Cruzan lies helpless. The main question now, said Rehnquist, was whether Missouri had a right to impose such requirements. The majority decided that because of the state's powerful interest in the preservation of life and the "obvious and overwhelming finality" of such life-and-death decisions, the state did have that right...
...give every dollar demanded by the cancer lobby, the heart disease lobby, the diabetes lobby. So now a different tack: the claim that the AIDS epidemic is, of course, not an act of government but an act of God -- and government has not done enough to help its helpless victims...
...Franz Ingelfinger, the late and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger noted that almost all illnesses are self-limiting. That is, the human body is capable of handling them without outside intervention. The thrust of the article was that we need not feel we are helpless if disease tries to tear away at our bodies, and that we can have greater confidence in the reality of a healing system that is beautifully designed to meet most of its problems. And even when outside help is required, our own resources have something of value to offer...
...Francisco the chief irritant is a band of 15 or so perpetrators whose nom de guerre is Those Darn Accordions! and who charge kamikaze-style into restaurants, wreaking indigestion on helpless customers with deafening choruses of Lady of Spain. T.D.A.! even threatened to "play" in city hall but was prevented from doing so when engineers warned that the building might collapse from excessive vibration. Instead, it was the board of supervisors that collapsed. "One of the things I love about San Francisco," said T.D.A. ! accordionist J. Raoul Brody, "is that a bunch of dopes like us can get together...