Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suitably impressed with Eisert's new get-tough stance. We wish council members could have heard more about it during the pre-election address Eisert largely devoted to recounting what he called the council's most significant accomplishments of his first term, including hosting milk and cookie breaks during reading and exam periods and extending house dining hours by 15 minutes...
...eighth-grade parochial school dropout from South Boston said Saturday she had been addicted to heroin for eight years and was rejected three times previously for long-term methadone treatment...
...Investment Banker Dennis Levine, a former Drexel Burnham managing director whose 1986 arrest led to the eventual uncovering of the Boesky scandal. In passing sentence on the now disbarred lawyer, the judge said his punishment was intended as a deterrent. Last week another Manhattan judge gave an identical term to Robert Wilkis, 37, a former investment banker at Lazard Freres who also was in the Levine ring...
...since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning that there is no obligation to perform them...
...gloomier prophets of the American future, the long-term drop in the birthrate means that the U.S. has joined other industrialized nations in a Spenglerian decline of the West. In his forthcoming book, The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), Wattenberg points out that developed nations such as the U.S., Australia and the West European countries, which accounted for 22% of the world population in 1950, are being surpassed by the rapidly growing East bloc and Third World populations. The developed nations now account for just 15% of the world total, and will sink...