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Until recently the 52-year-old ruling was rarely invoked by large employers. Companies feared that quality would dip if raw recruits replaced experienced workers and that customers would turn to other suppliers. Moreover, throwing down the gauntlet by replacing strikers might have triggered a wider backlash from unionized suppliers and consumers, or even provoked congressional intervention...
Jurists and ethicists wrestle with the wider implications of measuring the value of life on a sliding scale. Once a society agrees that at some stage a life is no longer worth sustaining, patients are suddenly vulnerable. "We would begin with competent people making their own choice," warns Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center and an authority on ethical issues in medicine, "but we would be too easily led into involuntary euthanasia -- either manipulating people into asking for suicide or actually doing it to them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent...
...work, the artist shows you both the underside of the tent and the view over its top. He reverses perspective, depicts the far end of a rug as wider than the near end. You are shown not what you expect to see, but what the artist wants...
Keith said he believes that America needs to institute social programs like Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" programs, only "better stuctured and with wider authority...
Although colleges have called for "a wider division among ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic lines, the call also [should be] for a better atmosphere and faculty to nurture and support this student diversity," Widnall said...