Word: allows
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Under the new plan, honors juniors would take a broader, indivisible full-year course rather than two more focused half courses. This system, Maier said, would allow students to integrate their coursework with their major field of study more easily...
...suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special mouth-activated switch. Upholding McAfee's privacy rights, the court granted his petition. But McAfee subsequently decided not to end his life after...
Such situations essentially confront families with a Hobson's choice: either they stand by and allow a loved one to waste away, or else they act to hasten death, with all the guilt and recrimination that entails. A state attorney accused 87-year-old Ruth Hoffmeister of wanting to starve her husband to death. Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease. When he began losing weight, their Pompano Beach, Fla., nursing home would have been obliged by state regulations to force-feed him through a tube. Ruth protested...
What makes the wrangling particularly frustrating is that, two weeks ago, Shamir appeared ready to sign on to the Washington meeting. But last week Shamir succumbed to pressure from Likud hard-liners, who argue that Baker's conditions will put Jerusalem up for negotiation and allow an indirect role for the P.L.O. He demanded that East Jerusalem's 140,000 Arabs not vote or run in elections and warned that Israel would walk away from any negotiations that appeared to involve the P.L.O...
...their finances and return to business without struggling through pitched court battles over every asset. Explains David Post, executive director of the Turnaround Management Association, a North Carolina-based trade group: "1978 said that if you can achieve an agreement with a majority of your creditors, the court will allow you to reorganize" without satisfying all of them...