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...down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black woman, a matriarchal blend of sweetness and strength. "You have to say, 'Let's do patty-cake,' 'Let's sing,' 'Let's kiss on each other a little while.' Let's do all those mushy things that prolong the child's life...
...appeal to the NLRB could prolong the legal dispute well into 1989, labor law experts said, because the NLRB must reevaluate all the evidence before reaching a decision...
Congress last year created a $30 million emergency fund for AIDS patients who were unable to afford the high cost (about $8,000 a year) of AZT, the only FDA-approved drug known to prolong their lives. It did so on the unusual condition that the measure's sponsors would not try to renew the funding. For the 6,000 beneficiaries so far, a new crisis is at hand: although various states still have some of this money left, the federal program will end on Sept. 30 and a new grant is doubtful...
...dying patient and armed with an indomitable determination, Dame Cicely opened St. Christopher's, the world's first modern hospice. In doing so, she changed the impersonal, technocratic approach to death that since World War II has become endemic in overwhelmed Western hospitals. No heroic efforts were made to prolong life. There was no operating theater; no temperatures were taken or pulses recorded. Instead of specialists mumbling into charts, there were doctors sitting at bedsides holding patients' trembling hands. When death came, it was not with the accompaniment of IV drips and respirators but with tranquil normality. Above all, through...
Woodlock said the shift in the vote wassignificant enough that in the second to last dayof the trial, he recommended that the case reenterdiscovery, normally a pre-trial period ofgathering information. But a day later, bothattorneys said they did not want to prolong thetrial and proceeded with closing arguments...