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...waxing chart above is a demonstration of how snow conditions and temperature combine to determine the optimum...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Switch to Cross-Country | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill at Mass General should be commended for its efforts to produce explicit guidelines for doctors when deciding such cases. Its recommendations, which were accepted by the hospital in September, advise that patients whose brains do not function and who show no prospect of recovery should be taken off expensive life support measures. The report argues that if a patient has no brain function--even if he breathes and has a pulse--he is dead. The committee accepted as its criteria for death the Harvard standard, developed by a committee at the Medical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defining Death | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...forecast for next year calls for real growth in G.N.P. of about 4%. But the upturn is beginning from such a low base-German industry today is operating at only 75% of capacity -that even with that relatively healthy advance the economy will be operating well below optimum levels. The unemployment rate has risen to 4.4%, and could well go higher this winter. In Germany, that is high enough to raise grim memories of the '20s and '30s, when legions of jobless workers flocked to Fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Seeking an End to the Global Slump | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...reason is that Mass General Hospital, under a report from its committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill, set up guidelines in September for the removal from expensive life support of patients whose brains no longer function...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Rights of Passage | 11/15/1975 | See Source »

...Fred Jewett '57, dean of Harvard and Radcliffe admissions, seems to have the firmest idea of the issues the group should consider. He wants the group to discuss what criteria should go into the selection of the class, especially considerations for "disadvantaged portions, minority groups, and an optimum balancing of men and women...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: In Search of Harvard College | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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