Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Night. A train bearing more modest English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet...
Before buying a machine, consumers might do well to figure out whether they want a VCR primarily to record television programs or to play prerecorded movies. If the latter, a VCR with "multievent programmability" is unnecessary. If the primary use is to be time shifting (recording a television program at one time for viewing at another), then multi-event programmability is desirable. The most advanced machines will record as many as eight programs over a 21-day period. RCA has a couple of models that will even program up to a year in advance. As a rule, the fewer...
...with this kind of decision. There is a subtle but crucial distinction, however, between the everyday medical decision of whether or not to operate, of weighing a patient's problem against the side effects of a possible drug, and denying a patient a last resort to life. In the latter case, the situation is comparable to the problem of "pulling the plug" on dialysis machines. In decisions of these kinds, the doctor's scientific procedures for judgment do not necessarily get him off slippery ground...
...evaluate, are the societal ethical questions. For example, there are too-expensive technologies which could create a system of multi-class care which is undesirable. Or, some issues carry ethically-charged questions like the right to life, such as decision-making about life-support systems. It's the latter group [societal vs. individual questions] that we are even less able to evaluate...
Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has just been busted for disturbing the affluence of Beverly Hills; a few moments before, some bad guys had shattered decorum and a plate-glass window by heaving him through the latter. Now Axel, who hails from Detroit, where the fuzz's lot is mostly scuzz, looks wonderingly around. "This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life," he murmurs. "This thing's nicer than my apartment." Very politely he requests the arresting officers to pull over if they just happen to spot any movie...