Word: staved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a very conscious decision by doctors, along with the patient's family, to withhold treatment." The question becomes not how to save a life but when to let it go. Aided by artificial and transplanted organs and a jungle gym of gadgetry, doctors can now stave off death for long periods. The blessings of science have brought the curse of choices that raise confounding ethical and legal uncertainties. Is life, however tenuous or painful, always preferable to death? At what point should doctors stop treating terminally ill or permanently unconscious patients? Which forms of treatment or care...
...region last month, she gave the President an exceptionally gloomy report. Backed by Clark, she repeated her longstanding conviction that if El Salvador fell to the rebels, the rest of Central America would be imperiled. Only an immediate infusion of aid to El Salvador, she told Reagan, could stave off the sound of falling dominoes...
Then, as his listeners sipped Riesling wine and broke bread rolls to stave off predinner hunger pangs, Bush unveiled his pièce de résistance: a letter from President Reagan to "the people of Europe." It said: "Just as our allies can count on the United States to defend Europe at all cost, you can count on us to spare no effort to reach a fair and meaningful agreement that will reduce the Soviet nuclear threat. I have asked Vice President Bush to propose to Soviet General Secretary Andropov that he and I meet wherever and whenever...
...fund-raising dinner in Chicago for Republican Senator Charles Percy and at a kind of mid-term pep rally in Washington for his political appointees. The sum of his remarks suggests that he may be about to moderate his harshly ideological stance just enough, and just in time, to stave off disaster...
...endemic species of eastern Brazil, species which because of the region's isolation do not occur anywhere else in the world. The WWF estimates that 53% of animals in this rain forest are endemic, and so it is important that the remnants of the rain forest be preserved to stave off total extinction. The WWF chose the muriqui as the subject of their documentary because their plight is symbolic of many of those endemic species...