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Attorneys representing the hospital and the doctors involved in the case take yet another tack. The hospital's lawyer, Theodore Einhorn, urges the court to leave the patient to her doctors, who are best qualified to decide how to treat her. Ralph Porzio, counsel for Morse and Javed, agrees. If the court authorizes an action that may end Karen's life, he says, "hundreds of thousands of people who are confined to institutions for the chronically ill" will be affected. They "may be in a condition similar to Karen's and you can terminate their lives...
...Washington, a strategy that was actually aided by President Ford's campaign swing in New Hampshire on behalf of Wyman. Durkin hammered away at the high cost of heating oil, gasoline and electricity, and forecast more increases under Ford's policy of decontrolling domestic oil. That tack was effective in New Hampshire, which has been hit unusually hard by heating and electricity price hikes...
...Shifty winds kept changing about 180 degrees about every ten minutes. We would try to tack and made a full circle without changing the heading." Herrick said...
...Senate Budget Committee has proposed a fiscal 1976 deficit of $69.6 billion, and the House Budget Committee $73.2 billion. Something within that range might be manageable, but there is strong sentiment in both House and Senate to tack on spending proposals that could send the deficit rocketing much higher, conceivably even to $100 billion...
Students from UMass-Amherst, UMass-Boston and Boston State College took a different tack, rallying on the Boston Common to protest a 10-per-cent cutback in spending...