Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There have been accusations that your remarks about interest rates were ill-timed and helped trigger the Monday crash. Is that...
...provocative argument: longer is not better. But Americans have shied off from similar points made in recent years. When former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm spoke out in 1984 about the terminally ill's "duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged more emphasis on the quality rather than the length of life, but his eloquence failed to generate sustained debate. Callahan, arguably the nation's leading medical ethicist, means to make discussion of the subject inescapable. For 18 years, as director of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., he has grappled...
...many. He would have Congress restrict Medicare payments for such ! procedures as organ transplants, heart bypasses and kidney dialysis for the aged. States should give legal status to "living wills," allowing individuals to demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably on to the withholding of costly antibiotics...
...deep concern about "intergenerational equity." There are "better ways to spend money than indefinitely extending life," he charges. Long treatment of the elderly drains funds from the health needs of other groups and from urgent social problems. He also has withering views about many of the non-ill elderly: the "young-old" who deny age and indulge an "it's-my-turn" attitude. Their lives, says Callahan crustily, would gain meaning "if instead of taking a cruise, they work for a cause...
...flabbiness of corporate America has been another major contributor to the trade deficit. Domestic manufacturers were ill-equipped to deal with the onslaught of eager foreign competitors. But now many U.S. companies have boosted their competitiveness by slimming down their costs and speeding up their reaction times. Among Detroit automakers, for instance, the "arrogance is diminishing. There is a sense of vulnerability," observes Maryann Keller, an auto-industry analyst...