Word: kins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typified by her husband's annoying habits--his cautious driving, his nightly flossing routine before bed, his compulsion for organizing--she discovers she has become too tamed to overcome her dependency on familiar routines. Similarly, Rose returns from her honeymooon and comes straight back home, abandoning Julian, to her kin and the estabslihed shrine of domestic order to which she has long sacrificed any personal desires. While critical of women's traditional roles, Tyler attributes their pathos less to the forces of social oppression than to self-resigned defeat...
...some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...
President Ershad set up camp on Urirchar to take control of rescue operations and relief efforts. Nearby, many of the island farmers, having laid their kin to rest, bravely set about rebuilding. Yet even as reconstruction got under way, floods 200 miles away battered the northeastern regions of the ill-starred country and 300,000 more Bangladeshis lost their homes...
...Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy Martin cognac, Wilson tennis racquets and balls, Japanese TVs and calculators. Vietnamese are allowed to receive up to four packages each year from friends or kin abroad. Some families subsist exclusively from the sale of such foreign goods...
There's an intermediate ground between presumed consent and complete dependence--you could call it "required request." It would oblige physicians to ask [next of kin for permission to harvest organs]. With this sanction, that the doctors will always ask, it would overcome doctors' reluctance to do so, and reduce the trauma of the families. It would be a sanctioned part of social discourse which is something which, to me, we clearly should...