The decision underscores the medical community's changing attitudes about how doctors should help patients deal with severe and chronic pain.

The decision also underscored the majority's impatience with continued Federal court involvement in school desegregation.

But the decision underscores how completely Americans have bought into the concept of race as a biological, descriptive designation.

The decision today underscored the continued adherence on the part of most members of the Court to the view that death is different.

At the same time, however, the decision underscored the importance of such regulation.

The decision by the Forbes campaign to choose subtle over slashing underscores a turn in political advertising.

The decision this month by California voters to ban bilingual education in schools underscores that, he said.

The decision implicitly underscored her own special relationship to Teacher who, in her eyes, was the more remarkable of the two.

The decision, members said, underscored concerns about cost, as smaller firms worried that they could not institute the types of systems used at larger companies.

Judge Patel's decision also underscores a possible rift in the record industry.