Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon the studio head Monroe Stahr, worried by union activity under his nose, orders the screenwriting department to send him a two page "treatment" of the Communist Manifesto. No doubt many of the blacklistees never read any more Marx than Stahr did, but they found that they had to pay for it later. The most remarkable and admirable thing about the Hollywood Ten still, is that they took responsibility for their past and showed a willingness to proclaim their ownership of a collective legacy of principle. Some smart guys think they should have done things differently...
...plug," in effect, if life-sustaining procedures serve no other purpose than to postpone the moment of death. Under the California legislation, such directives can now be drafted by any adult, must be witnessed by two people who are neither related to the patient nor involved in his medical treatment, and must be renewed every five years. Then, beginning Jan. 1 in California, if a doctor and a colleague determine that the patient is hopelessly ill, life-sustaining machinery can be shut off without any legal repercussions for the physicians or the patient's family...
...point is that you can't lump an entire minority group together and give them preferential treatment...
...sewer pipes, six feet in diameter, will carry the sewage to the chlorination station near the Boston University Bridge for treatment. Catch basins will still dump into the river because it is mainly rain water and would not warrant the expense of treatment, Owen said...
Craving jobs and a measure of equal treatment, blacks by the millions fled the South for the industrial cities of the North. The proportion of black Americans living in the South fell from 78% in 1900 to 43% in 1975. Lately, however, lessening racism and rapid economic growth have begun to reverse the trend. Many Northern blacks are apprehensive about the South, and some of those who left retain traumatic memories. But countless blacks are moving to the South, fleeing the Northern cities' high crime rates, high prices and deteriorating schools. For the most part, the people moving South...