Word: incurring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keeping resuscitated but dying patients alive can cost as much as $500 a day, hospital administrators say, and a hospital can incur more severe costs by allotting its special but limited equipment to such hopeless patients. Allowing such patients to die is a necessary and humane process, they argue...
Heavily Decorated. Then came Pearl Harbor. A.J.A.s in public life withdrew rather than incur the wrath of the haoles. In huge numbers, the younger nisei volunteered for military service. They were rebuffed at first. But in 1942, thanks in part to the intercession of the late Governor John Burns, then a police officer serving as liaison between the FBI and the A.J.A.s, 7,500 were inducted and shipped to Europe. Half of them were killed or wounded; their units were heavily decorated. The proud survivors returned home and went to college on the G.I. Bill. A new professional class...
...those men who act most in accordance with the precepts of the law, and who do their jobs efficiently. So Earl Silbert and Elliot L. Richardson are praised profusely for "doing it by the book," and those who used the case as an opportunity to mount their political soapboxes incur Higgins's wrath...
...safe passage of the South Vietnamese. Others have proposed that the U.S. ask Russia or China to bring pressure on Hanoi to negotiate a ceasefire. Kissinger thinks that would be useless. As one senior official put it: "What can they do that is worth the debt we would incur? The idea that the Russians and the Chinese can put the squeeze on Hanoi now is unrealistic. To negotiate a surrender, we don't need them...
...mention Viet Nam. His explanation of why the U.S. seemed somehow unable to quit the war in 1968 is a therapeutic jolt for those who prefer not to recall the recent past. "If we stop, our guilt is palpable," he wrote, "all this hell for nothing. Hence we must incur more guilt, and more, and always more to cleanse ourselves of guilt. Here is a parallel to Macbeth." But in real as in theatrical tragedy, the killing had to stop...