Word: stake
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Both the courts and the doctors have always had a stake in protecting and preserving people's lives. Their competing claims to being the ultimate guardians of life sparked into conflict over the Saikewicz case. Doctors maintained the case simply involved a medical question, and it would be a dangerous precedent for courts to interfere with doctors' traditional autonomy in such matters. They argued that society has given the medical profession the responsibility of determining the efficacy of treatments and a patient's chances of survival, and thus they must be the ones to make the right-to-die decision...
Carter had promised that he would make a decision on Rhodesia by June 15, and had written to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd urging him "not to support any initiative that would preempt existing law or prejudge the issue at stake." This is exactly what Senator Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who has long supported the white Rhodesian cause, had been thumping for. When Helms' position seemed to be gaining strength last week, the Senate settled for a compromise resolution that was not legally binding on the President. But one senior White House aide acknowledged that "some policy...
Recent discussions of moral responsibility in investments and purchases have neglected a very fundamental moral issue at stake here: How much control do people have over the conduct of institutions shaping their lives? I am sure you would agree that furthering respect for democratic decision-making is one of the most basic educational goals Harvard can pursue...
...time it has taken to negotiate the new accord indicates the sensitivity and complexity of arms control. At stake is the national security of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. SALT is not a disarmament treaty, and there are large elements of military force that it does not cover...
...duty of students to strive for change when they feel that strong moral issues are at stake, even though their efforts are ineffectual. Students may have an impact on the fate of the Afro-American Department. Their ability to achieve divestiture is much more tenuous, but nonetheless their effort is worthwhile. There has already been much discussion, with no results. The time is ripe for action...