Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors struggled to keep the dying man alive, Copeland's assistants made desperate calls to organ-procurement agencies, hoping to find another human donor heart for him. None was available. Copeland then made a bold decision. He opted to use a virtually untested artificial heart to sustain Creighton until another human heart could be found--a direct violation of federal rules. There was no time, Copeland later said, to seek permission from the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the use of medical devices: "If we had asked them to make a decision, the patient would have been dead...
...analytical confusion among those Black students with ethnocentric identities is further revealed in the naive arguements by the quintet (and also by Christopher Farley and James Kearney--March 4) that the wider Harvard community is obligated to fund and sustain a Third World Center. Though the quintet and Alan Shaw disagree with me--owing perhaps to their low leadership expectations of Black students--I still consider it a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students with ethnocentric identities to ask others (whites) to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences...
...sigh; this will be over with by and by." He has hired former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal as his defense attorney. "You're not ever going to see a fight like this," he vows. "There is no way that any evidence can be produced to sustain or substantiate the tortuous allegations made by the U.S. Attorney...
Kilson goes on to assert that "it is a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students line (Black Students' Association President) Timothy Wilkins and Anthony Ball of the Third World Students' Alliance to ask others (Whites) to generate resources to sustain their political preferences" Kilson suggests that Black students should adopt "cosmopolitan lifestyles" and develop "inter-ethnic friendships and net-works," with the belief that "Black students at Harvard who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism." While Kilson maintains that...
...Students could use the most. But it seems he was completely against giving it. He even attacked the BSA for reaching out to Black alumni for support, right after he supported the right for Jewish students to reach out to their ethnic communities for the funds and resources to sustain such things as the Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. Furthermore, Mr. Kilson stated that it was wrong "to ask others (Whites) to generate resources to sustain" Black parochial preferences, which would seem to indicate that he would support our reaching out to Black alumni for help. And then...