Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if New Jersey had a rule on brain death, Karen's case would not quite fit because of her slight brain activity and occasional spontaneous breathing. To cut off life support now might therefore fall within the area of euthanasia. In outright cases of euthanasia-"when someone is suffering from a terminal disease and you inject a drug to terminate life," as Dr. Winter puts it -the law demands a verdict of intentional homicide. But on the question of a doctor shutting off a life-supporting machine and permitting a patient to die, the law is largely silent...
...Harvard's attempt to dismiss the case fails outright, Judge Frank Friedman will have to rule on Krohn's argument that the University, under the Massachusetts constitution, is really subject to the state legislature...
Permanence aside, there is the matter of distinction. A newsmagazine's cover usually shows men and women of achievement. But all sorts of people at the center of major news events, including outright villains, also must be featured on occasion, not as a matter of celebration but simply as the magazine version of a front-page personality. Many readers nevertheless regard any cover story as the bestowal of an ultimate accolade. Clare Boothe Luce complained in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Elizabeth Seton, the first native American to be canonized as a saint, couldn't make...
Full Portfolio. Bentsen has raised $1.5 million in campaign funds, more than any other candidate except George Wallace and Henry Jackson. He has also enlisted some impressive political support. While refraining from an outright endorsement, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has said that Bentsen has a full portfolio of presidential qualifications. Bentsen has been formally endorsed by Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and by almost every important office holder in Virginia. He is expected to defeat Wallace handily in the Texas primary and to do well in other parts of the South...
...barricades." In much of the U.S. last week, schoolchildren and their parents were concerned not with education but with busing, racial hostility and strikes. As buses began to roll, carrying black and white students across town to achieve integration, there was smouldering resentment in many communities and, in Louisville, outright violence. Boston, preparing to open its schools, feared the same. Millions of children could not even attend classes. Their schools were shut down in a growing wave of strikes by teachers angered by recession-caused layoffs, pay freezes and deteriorating working conditions. Following are accounts of the major conflicts...