Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some students may want to save their parents' favors for Commencement bonuses. And for them, there are more economical alternatives...
...always known that New Kids teen idol Donnie Wahlberg is a grimy sleazeball who can't sing or dance to save his nose ring. We've known that he is a deluded egomaniac who told a fluff biographer that 1969 would be remembered in history as the year Donnie Wahlberg was born. (Wasn't there some inconsequential tidbit about a man on the moon that year, too?) We've known that he is a temperamental prima donna who allegedly attacked some Georgia Tech students whose frisbee had the audacity to land near his motorcycle...
Bosze's attorneys argue that agreeing to a transplant would benefit not only Jean-Pierre but the twins too, by sparing them the trauma of knowing that their half brother died when they might have been able to save him. Their effort echoes a 1969 Kentucky case in which a court ordered a mentally impaired young man to donate a kidney to his ailing brother. It reasoned that the retarded man would be devastated by his brother's death...
...tradition is very strong that you can't invade a child's body to help another," says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
...even if $21 oil, as opposed to $10 oil, today would save us from $50 oil in a few years, why pay that extra $11 to oil producers? Why not buy the oil for $10, slap on an $11 tax and pocket the difference ourselves? That would raise about $40 billion a year -- just about enough to cancel the budget summit. (Last month's crisis. Remember?) A tax on imports alone would raise half that, allowing domestic producers to keep the difference. Yet the policy of two Republican administrations -- read their lips -- has been that it is better...