Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights of the handicapped and the duties of those who handle their medical treatment once again became an emotional public issue last week in two controversial court cases. In New York, the U.S. Justice Department filed an unprecedented lawsuit aimed at finding out whether a couple improperly refused to permit life-prolonging surgery on their severely handicapped newborn infant. In California, Elizabeth Bouvia, 26, who has been rendered helpless by cerebral palsy, was in a hospital, where she wanted to starve herself to death. When hospital officials told her that they could not aid her suicide, she went to court...
...atrocities in Lebanon. With so many American lives just lost, could Reagan risk more so soon in a military action he had the power to abort? Momentarily, he considered abandoning the invasion. Never, recalled an aide, had Reagan felt the burdens of the presidency so heavily. Could we permit "more blood on our hands?" one adviser asked somberly...
...post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past...
...Keeping housing in use by requesting a removal permit for refusal to rent units left vacant for more than 90 days...
DARTMOUTH 7, COLUMBIA 6--I should to Columbia too, but time will not permit. All is uneven, and every thing is left at six and seven...