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...American Medical Association] must retrain resident to ask [women] questions and open the Pandora's Box," she said...
Because of the ever increasing importance of economic issues, pressure is building to give Germany and Japan permanent places on the Security Council, but without the power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...
...mother's single connection with him throughout that period was frequent epistles that contained false reports of his beneficent father--that is, until his untimely death. Oswald's indefinite home stay opens a veritable Pandora's box of ghosts from the past, despite Mrs. Alving's maneuverings...
...tamper -- under any circumstances -- with last year's accord to reduce the budget deficit. Changing it now would open a Pandora's box of troubles and raise inflation fears...
Disposition of the Cruzan case seems to have opened a Pandora's box of right-to-die and right-to-life cases, all putting painful ethical dilemmas before the courts. Three days after Cruzan's death, the state-run Missouri Rehabilitation Center blocked the attempt of St. Louis marketing consultant Pete Busalacchi to move his daughter Christine from Missouri, which severely restricts the disconnecting of feeding tubes from patients judged beyond recovery, to Minnesota, where rules are less strict. In June the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Missouri's right to require "clear and convincing evidence" of a patient's desire...