Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...withholding treatment -- not by putting someone to sleep like a dog." Do doctors commonly make that kind of decision alone? "No one talks about that kind of stuff," he says. Manhattan Internist Eric Cassell, who prefers not to pass moral judgment on mercy killing, believes that if it does occur, it should be only because the "circumstances are impossible to change or bear -- not merely because the patient is depressed...
...dispute that the story raised troubling questions about a practice that may occur in hospitals more often than most patients realize -- or most doctors are willing to admit. J.A.M.A. Editor George Lundberg says his own staff split over whether or not to publish the piece. But two medical peer- review panels urged him to publish it. Lundberg, who believes the anonymous account is genuine (though J.A.M.A. has made no attempt to verify it), decided to go ahead. "My intent was to produce vigorous debate on a timely topic," he says. "We are technologically capable of prolonging dying at great cost...
...contributions to the University, cannot be manipulated as statistics are--against the existence of quotas arises when you closely examine the entire admissions process. According to David H. Eun '89. who has worked as a minority recruiter for the Admissions Committee for the last two years, the applications meetings occur in many different rooms, and each group of officers is oblivious to what the other groups are doing. The applications themselves are read numerous times by different officers, thereby further decentralizing the process...
ANOTHER potential disruption to the race that did not occur in Iowa was Gephardt's elimination--which would have resulted from anything short of victory. Down in the polls as recently as two months ago, Gephardt concentrated his national staff in Iowa and unleashed a blitz of new commercials portraying him as an anti-establishment populist. A win was absolutely essential for the congressman, who had campaigned strenuously in Iowa for nearly two years...
Armed with an abacus (reluctantly traded later for a calculator), she drafted editorial budgets that displayed an uncanny ability to predict the number of wars, snap elections and natural disasters that would occur and thus add to the cost of news coverage. Watt also (gulp!) reviewed our expense accounts. "God help anybody who tried to fool her," says Consulting Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. "But she was probably the best friend of everybody out in the field." That was certainly true in the case of the photographer who tried to sneak an elephant past her. "I said, 'What the heck...