Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about his business. "If the market hasn't recovered by the time I'm ready to go off into the sunset," he says, "this country is really in trouble. But I suspect that we could see a 10% to 20% drop in demand for our temporary labor as firms start to tighten...
...would have to adjust her business plan. "In a crunch," she says, "the extras are the first things to go at a company, and public relations is considered an extra." Until last week, Jo Ann Coogan, 30, of Dearborn, Mich., was planning to open a small brokerage. But her start-up money was heavily invested in the stock market. "I'm numb," she says. "All of a sudden you see how all of your life is affected by something like this...
Ethical complexities are increasing at the start of life as well. Last week Paul Holc, the youngest heart-transplant patient ever, was alive because of how a death-and-life problem was resolved in one case. Nine weeks ago, Canadians Karen, 27, and Fred, 36, learned that their unborn child lacked most of her brain. Called anencephaly, the always fatal malformation occurs in six of 10,000 births. Determined that some good should come from their tragedy, the couple decided to donate their baby's organs...
...Rogers and his colleagues in Lebanon slowly discover themselves embroiled in a game with no recognizable rules. After a possibly dangerous mission early in his tenure there, Rogers remarks, "Nobody in the Middle East would dare harm a representative of the United States." This is before the car bombs start blowing Beirut apart...
Writing a book in 1968 on the morality of abortion -- he describes his stance as "conservative pro-choice" -- Callahan hit on the idea for a think tank on biomedical ethics. At the start, Callahan and Gaylin wondered if there would be enough moral issues to keep them busy. But since an initial project on the definition of death, Hastings researchers have dealt with organ transplants, artificial reproduction, surrogate motherhood (Callahan opposes it; some of his colleagues approve), AIDS testing and privacy, genetic engineering -- a never-ending list...