Word: maze
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...transplants are performed on the same scale, an adequate definition of death will become just as controversial. The traditional termination of spontaneous heartbeat and breathing simply is not satisfactory. Emergency techniques have brought back many such clinically "dead." At the other extreme is the guideline of a cautious Dr. Maze, who wrote in 1890 that the first signs of decay should precede burial. For transplant purposes, this caution is a little restrictive...
Sheehy, a rookie right winger from Boston College, gathered the puck ten feet in front of the Cleveland net and just managed to forehand it through a maze of players for the game-winning goal. The come-from-behind win gave the Whalers a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-seven series...
THROUGH THE MAZE of changing foreign policy, U.S. corporations emerge as the primary benefactors. The policy of aid to economic growth and price stability followed by AID and U.S. support for stable governments insure the necessary climate for the growth of American business. The failure of the Alliance for Progress demonstrates that gradual social reform is impossible. The U.S. must, therefore, rely on aid to military suppression to maintain social stability...
Anyone who tries to probe into Castaneda's life finds himself in a maze of contradictions. But to Castaneda's admirers, that scarcely matters. "Look at it this way," says one. "Either Carlos is telling the documentary truth about himself and Don Juan, in which case he is a great anthropologist. Or else it is an imaginative truth, and he is a great novelist. Heads or tails, Carlos wins...
...some $4 billion in farm subsidies, v. $3.8 billion in 1967. Many U.S. farmers along with their local tractor dealer, seed salesman and mail-order supplier-have come to count on Washington's annual check for part of their income, whether or not they actually need it. The maze of rules surrounding federal farm policy has turned farming into a kind of beat-the-Government-at-its-own-game business, encouraging some farmers to collect subsidies that rightfully they should...