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Nine months later, he was confronted by his boss and close friend, Captain Mark Pierce, an Exxon supervisor in Baytown, Texas. He urged Hazelwood to seek treatment before he "got into trouble." In April 1985 he entered a 28-day alcohol rehabilitation program at a Long Island hospital. A doctor at the time found the skipper "depressed and demoralized...
Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...
...unequivocal decision in the complex case, Allen dismissed a key Paramount claim, that Time's directors had put the company up for sale in March when they originally agreed to acquire Warner. If that had been found to be true, Time would have been obligated under Delaware law to seek the maximum immediate return to shareholders by auctioning the company to the highest bidder. Paramount's argument that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders 62% of the shares...
Nonetheless, most ethicists agree that the couple's proprietary right to their embryo is not absolute. Some specialists contend that institutes and laboratories should have the right to prevent couples from authorizing inappropriate experimentation on embryos. These experts believe that couples considering in vitro fertilization should seek professional counseling as a matter of course. They should decide in advance what is to be done with the zygote if they do not use it because of death or divorce, and their decision should always be codified in a legally binding contract. "The power to decide should be agreed upon at inception...
...reverse side, affirmative action does not differentiate among Blacks whose life prospects have not been affected by slavery. Sons and daughters of wealthy Blacks benefit just as well as poor inner-city youths. The proper role of affirmative action is to seek out qualified minorities actively and promote them when they are indeed best suited for the positions in question...