Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it comes to extremely complex and costly medical procedures for very old patients. "Most of the elderly would probably accept that idea," says Dr. Perry Stafford, a surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. "It is usually their families who have this tenacious hold on anything that will prolong life. It is hard for people to see that at some ) point, you are prolonging death, not life...
...readily available, easily ingested chemical has lured far more women into addiction than any other hard drug has. By the latest estimates, more than 1 million U.S. women use cocaine. Moreover, crack has spurred the use of other drugs. Women who take cocaine are likely to use heroin to prolong a high, then tranquilizers and alcohol to come down. They may indulge in marijuana, PCP and amphetamines. As a result, many crack babies steep in a stew of drugs while in the womb...
...first and do something about your socks. You've got two different colors on. And I don't know if that checked shirt goes with those plaid trousers." Roth and his brother agonize about whether or not to let the doctors remove the tumor, an operation that may prolong their father's life but could also remove whatever it is that made Herman Roth Herman Roth. "Will I be a zombie?" he asks...
...that is if everything goes well, which is no sure thing. The economists in the TIME forum warned that the U.S. faces a minefield of unprecedented risks that could worsen the recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash...
...only so long as the vague, hypothetical benefits of holding off Asian communism outweighed the immmediate, palpable domestic pain. They knew that when the screaming grew too loud and too many sons had been killed, the game would be over. That is why...our reluctance to [be drafted] helped prolong...