Word: jersey
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...concept of privacy failed to strike down sodomy bans, it nonetheless was used last week to create the most important precedent to date in the complicated area of a person's right to live and die. It came in a unanimous ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the much-discussed case of Karen Anne Quinlan (TIME, Nov. 3). After apparently downing some pills and drinks a year ago, Karen, 22, had fallen into a vegetative coma, and her father asked for court authority to remove a life-supporting respirator so that she could die "with grace...
...Reagan's North Carolina victory made it more likely that he will keep running at least until the final races on June 8, when 331 delegates will be chosen in Ohio, New Jersey and California. On the Democratic side, there were no surprises in North Carolina: by 54% to 35%, Jimmy Carter swamped George Wallace (see story next page...
Seltzer, the son of a New Jersey biochemist, is a Princeton graduate, class of 1954. He switched to Harvard for his doctoral studies, then returned to Princeton in 1970 after twelve years of teaching English at Harvard...
...other jurisdictions, including Alaska, have given up their memberships in the Social Security system, and another 207 government units have declared their intention to do so. Last week Mayor Abraham Beame announced that New York City, the biggest local government of all, would join the dropouts, and New Jersey's fiscal affairs office recommended that the state consider a pullout...
...police that he had recognized the boxer and Artis; at the same time Bradley said he could identify Carter. Though defense witnesses said that Carter and Artis had been in another, nearby bar at about the time of the shootings, they were sentenced to life. In 1969 the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the convictions, and for a while that seemed to be that...