Word: requester
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Green said Harvard agreed to conduct the study at the neighbors' request because of the potential for accidents. The results will be made available to the Agassiz and Mid-Cambridge neighbors...
...marriage of two such powerful partners is certain to accelerate the conversion of modern cable TV into the two-way, interactive system that will allow consumers to order movies, browse through store merchandise, send pictures of the kids to Grandma, make phone calls and request a wide variety of information services -- all by pushing buttons on their TV remote controls. Time Warner officials now say it will take five years -- not 10, as previously estimated -- for these new services to be rolled out to the company's 7.1 million cable subscribers...
...proof, ethicists point to the world's euthanasia laboratory, the Netherlands, where for almost 20 years the courts have not convicted doctors who assist in suicides at the explicit request of the patient. Last February, the Dutch parliament moved to give doctors the actual right to do so -- if they follow strict guidelines for second opinions. Yet a 1991 study found that in one year more than 1,000 Dutch patients who were not capable of giving consent died at their doctors' hands...
...himself to the camera, operated by the doctor's sister Margo. In the first of the three taped sessions, over 2 1/2 months, he addresses mostly Sue's medical condition and her intent. Her voice is sometimes hard to follow because her disease has affected her speech. At his request, she attempts vainly to move three of her limbs and then manages, precariously, to pick up a cup of coffee with her one good hand...
...Kevorkian's request, Sue has consulted a professional on this: Father Robert McGrath, Joanne's priest. However, his written opinion that "Sue is ; being asked to go through with something that she has always been taught is wrong" infuriates her: "I think he took everything out of proportion. I talked to him because I had to." The subject is dropped...