Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads, possibly send company employees to the launching site and have its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing driver...
...personified the country's racial stalemate: Mandela, who turns 71 this week, insisted that he would make no deals with the white government while he remained a prisoner; Botha, 73, vowed that he would never free the symbolic leader of the nation's black majority unless Mandela forswore the use of violence...
Cases like the Yorks' are bound to multiply. The nation's population of frozen embryos exceeds 4,000, and state laws governing their use are often in conflict with one another or at odds with reality. In Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association...
Without prejudging the York case, many ethicists believe that as a general rule, a couple's primary claim to use of its embryo has a sound basis in law and common sense. "When a physician starts owning embryos and making decisions for his patients," says Marrs, co-founder of Good Samaritan's Institute for Reproductive Research, "there'll be no stopping anyone who has anything to do with pregnancy from getting involved." The Roman Catholic Church, in company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from...
Allston-Brighton, across the Charles River from Cambridge and home to the Business School and the athletic facilities, had for a long time felt like the "back-door" to Harvard, to use the phrase of resident Gary McIsaac, but the indepth discussion involved in coming up with a master plan was seen as a means of changing that...