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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unknown resident's actions points to the serious moral and ethical questions of euthanasia. What has upset many doctors is the resident's decision to kill Debbie without attempting to allieviate her pain or without consulting her doctor or family. The American Medical Association's official guidelines say that physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never cause death intentionally. But as Debbie's case shows us, the line between the two has become fuzzy...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: Life-and-Death Dilemma | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...playing football, hadn't been to Olympic trials and still didn't have good enough times to qualify. In interviews after his dismissal, LaVigne charged that Gault's addition to the team was part of "an arrangement" by the U.S. Bobsled Federation to bring media attention to the relatively-unknown winter sport...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard Sledder Fights Onto U.S. Olympic Squad | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

...Brecht, and Alexander Ostrovsky's 19th century Russian comedy Too Clever By Half. "I want to break out of the stale convection current that keeps endlessly recirculating the same old Shaw and Chekhov," says Miller. "We are part of Europe, and there are vast expanses of European literature unknown to London audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Life at London's Old Vic | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...though the performers' share of the fee may be, it is often enough to buy a Western automobile and finance a princely standard of living when they return home. But most who venture west seek fame as well as fortune. "In Poland I would pass my whole career almost unknown," says Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average $500-a-performance fee at theaters throughout Austria. "I'm just beginning in Austria, but if I have talent, I can see it appreciated now, not after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales of The Flesh Trade | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed to relying on Moscow's central planners for virtually all business decisions. If employees of successful enterprises can anticipate increased bonuses and shared profits, others face the hitherto unknown prospect of plant closures and severe job dislocations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union At the Point of No Return | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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