Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history, an unsettling question lingers: Could it happen again? Yes, answers a senior partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of the most respected members of the financial community. The securities markets and the tax system must undergo fundamental reforms, he maintains. Otherwise, inadequate regulation, excessive speculation and overuse of credit could bring on a banking crisis and a stock collapse more damaging than the Crash...
...person who is stopped by the police does not have to submit to questions and searches, but the choice may not be there. It is being said that those who do undergo interrogations and searches "voluntarily" may be more than persuasively coerced...
...great many men joined the National Guard. Since their units generally remained in the U.S., Guardsmen were able to fulfill their military obligation with only the slimmest chance of seeing combat. Guard members were required to undergo six months of basic training and then provide part-time service, mostly on weekends, for the rest of their six-year tour. Though the Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended in the early 1960s that the Guard be sent to Viet Nam, Army Guard units were assigned combat duty only in 1968-69. No more than 20 of the nation's approximately...
...joined prematurely. So far, his right shin is stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody out of the room. "I want to be by myself!" Did he regret the operation? "No!" he screamed. "Grownups cry for much less pain! Leave me alone...
...last-ditch effort, Thompson has filed a motion to "restore Sharon Kowalski to capacity," meaning to help her reach her full mental and physical potential. Two weeks ago, the court ordered that Sharon undergo a formal evaluation to see if she is capable of making decisions about her future. On the whole, the courts have not been sympathetic to Thompson's case. Most states favor blood relatives as guardians of unmarried disabled people, explains Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan...