Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time of lights, yes, but also of sounds-sounds that flood in to reassure and delight. Outdoors, bells ringing in church steeples and in the hands of Volunteers of America Santas, organ music at skating rinks, the slash of sharp blades on crisp ice. At home, crackling fires and, if it has snowed, the stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week...
...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
Meanwhile, the British public is frightened. London Photographer Sally Greenhill expressed a common reaction to the broadcast: "I immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...
...radicals, similar to Italy's Red Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part in virtually every organ of government, and could interrupt the political process at any time the military chiefs determined that there was an emergency...
...each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from Buckley. Yet the staff of 45, which operates out of rumpled Manhattan offices whose walls are plastered with Reagan stickers, is beginning to joke about being "an Establishment organ...