Word: jersey
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...only real trouble came on the way back when I decided to play Tommy Tourist and see the sights in New Jersey. The next thing I knew, I was driving through downtown Newark at the happy hour, and if there's one experience in life which can be missed, it's driving through downtown Newark, at any hour...
That not very funny Polish joke is even less of a laughing matter for Jerry Ford. It echoes his troubles among Polish Americans and other people of Eastern European descent who make up 10% or more of the population in such pivotal states as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. A loss of a relatively few ethnic votes in those battlegrounds could cost Ford dearly, and many of these voters were surprised and offended by his celebrated gaffe in the second debate with Jimmy Carter. "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," said the President...
...Jersey Supreme Court eventually ruled in the Quinlans' favor earlier this year, but not before the story had grabbed considerable attention in the national press. The most interesting fact the news stories revealed was not that Karen Ann Quinlan quit going to church, or that Joseph and Julia Quinlan are parents only by adoption, or even that many "hopeless" comatose patients have recovered; these things only detract from the significance of the Quinlan case. The important discovery was that respirators had been unplugged earlier all over the country--sometimes without even the permission of the families involved. Some doctors...
...treatment. In considering the implications of that revelation--the first officially stated policy for letting people die--Colen's presentation of death is invaluable; we must each decide if medical ethics are being properly handled. But don't read Karen Ann Quinlan to find out about a comatose New Jersey woman. Colen uses Karen Quinlan, the patient, only to introduce the many unanswered medical ethics questions. He leaves Karen Quinlan, the woman, in peace...
...team travels to New Jersey this weekend, playing their Princeton counterparts Saturday morning before the football game...