Word: pull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the details of these recent activities were already in the hands of the law. Twice a week, beginning in 1975, a van would pull up to the Bonanno home and switch the plastic bags of garbage with similar-looking refuse. The authorities would then piece together Bonanno's torn-up notes from phone conversations, which recorded everything from the supplying of pizzeria equipment to concealing records from a grand jury (for which he is awaiting trial in San Francisco...
...faddishness as well. Its least attractive symptom may be Americans' rejection of almost anything old that is not a marketable antique. In no aspect of the nation's life has this been more evident than in the reckless, relentless assault on old buildings and neighborhoods. The "pull-down-and-build-over spirit," as Walt Whitman dubbed it, has been incalculably costly in terms of aesthetics, energy and the sense of continuity that binds communities and generations together...
They must be able to work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
...courts and hospitals of Massachusetts. Due to recent technological and medical advances that enable doctors to keep patients on the brink of death alive and to treat with limited success the previously incurable, doctors and lawyers are for the first time tackling the question, "Who, if anyone, should pull the plug?" In the case of an incompetent patient--such as the very young, the unconscious, or the mentally retarded--who should take on the awesome responsibility of deciding whether to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment...
...Supreme Judicial Court will now have to develop a balancing test to determine when the individual's right to privacy outweighs the state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...