Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn't pandering for ratings. "I have a low threshold for discomfort, and I was not made uncomfortable by the moment of death," he says. "I didn't see anybody writhing in agony. I didn't see anything that would make me turn my face away." With euthanasia being so hotly debated, he adds, "the story we put on the air, exactly as we told it, was a fit and proper...
...executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should see more people dying this way." Opponents saw it differently. "I certainly didn't see any compassion," says Ned McGrath, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. "His last moment on earth, and he's left in a room with Jack Kevorkian and a video camera. What a horrible way to leave the world." Critics say that since Kevorkian made the video himself, it is impossible to know precisely how sick Youk was and what he knew when he consented...
...child discovers that he can consistently override adult power, he will come to understand that he can get his way by bullying...Victory may feel sweet at the moment, but a child who feels too powerful can also feel anxious that the grownups...are actually afraid of him." (Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know...
...nearly impossible to imagine that it was less than 60 years ago, in 1939, when David Sarnoff told a crowd of curious viewers, "Now we add sight to sound." Sarnoff went on to say, "It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in the troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit...
...economically. His father Elias was one of those feckless figures who wandered the heartland at the turn of the century seeking success in many occupations but always finding sour failure. He spared his children affection, but never the rod. They all fled him at the earliest possible moment...