Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cuts in local aid would decimate programs supported by cities and towns, including many human services, and would close down local governments that depend on state funds for up to 80 percent of their budgets, Flynn said...
Maloney said cuts in the June payment willdrastically hurt the city's ability to providebasic municipal and human sevices...
...shrimp,' " recalls Jonas Devlin. The Stratford, Conn., eighth-grader is not disabled or deformed; he is merely very short. At 13, he is 4 ft. 7 in., or 6 in. shorter than 97% of the kids his age. But Jonas has high hopes: since he began therapy with human growth hormone three years ago, he has started to grow at a normal pace. The height gap between him and his peers is no longer widening, and it may eventually shrink. Jonas already notices the difference: "Now, because I'm growing faster, I don't get picked on as much...
...natural chemical in humans that helps promote growth. In the past, when the hormone was in short supply because it had to be extracted from the pituitary glands of human cadavers, injections of HGH were given only to treat children who had a serious deficiency of the chemical...
...former Soviet satellites, abandoned by Moscow, promised free elections -- and more or less faded into oblivion. The Berlin Wall came tumbling down; the cold war ended. And only last week history was further rewritten when Czechoslovakia's onetime reformer Alexander Dubcek, whose effort to achieve "socialism with a human face" was smashed by Soviet tanks in 1968, re- emerged from oblivion to head the National Parliament; shortly thereafter, frequently imprisoned playwright Vaclav Havel was elected President. It was as though the age-old rules of political conflict had been suspended, and the wolf would dwell with the lamb, the leopard...