Word: consent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People who are drunk or high are by definition unable to give consent to sex," she said...
Quite frankly, most of today's aspirants for independence are not going to get it now, and maybe never will. The Helsinki accords of 1975 approved changes of borders only by mutual consent. Yet who besides the Czech Republic and Slovakia will politely shake hands and part ways...
...this scenario, Judge Jackson would force Microsoft to sign a consent decree containing a list of dos and don'ts--no more arm twisting for exclusive deals with computer manufacturers, no more inviting competitors to divide markets. This is the remedy given the least serious consideration by the attorneys general, who say Microsoft has a history of violating consent decrees...
...there are many--complain that they violate the first principle of medicine: do no harm. Surgery, even sham surgery, is never risk-free. Doeschner says his doctors told him that he might get the short end of the double-blind stick and warned him before asking for his consent that even a fake operation could leave him "a vegetable...
...Consent is irrelevant," objects Arthur Caplan, director of the bioethics center at the University of Pennsylvania. "When you're dealing with desperate illness, people will consent to anything...