Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Stevens, who is working toward her mastersdegree in human service management at theUniversity of Massachusetts, favors a $10 dollarminimum wage and increased welfare benefits to theput the state's entire population at or above thepoverty line...
...bill would continue to give an overwhelming preference to those with close relatives in the U.S. To the delight of human-rights activists, the proposed measure would also lift the McCarthy-era blanket bans on Communists and homosexuals. And in another break with current practice, the Department of Health and Human Services has been empowered, at its discretion, to end the ban on AIDS-infected foreigners seeking to enter...
...species-by-species approach does little to avert conflict. Man cannot manage nature through a series of ad hoc rescue attempts, ignoring the underlying causes for the loss of biodiversity. The answer is not to dilute the Endangered Species Act but to better anticipate the consequences of human activity, focusing on entire ecosystems rather than on single species. By the time a creature joins the endangered list it may be too late, the genetic stock impoverished, its habitat destroyed...
...Congress decided that money is a secondary consideration. The fact that legislators found their political courage when it came to human health, even as they have avoided making hard choices on the country's financial health, underscores just how dangerous America's dirty air has become...
...American grocery store, claims Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, has become a "Tower of Babel." Consumers need to be linguists, scientists and mind readers to understand the overblown health claims on labels that blare at them from supermarket shelves. And even those skills may not be enough. "Light" may mean low calorie to most health- conscious consumers, but on a bottle of Bertolli Extra Light olive oil, the term refers to its color. Hostess Light cupcakes are said to be "low fat, no cholesterol," but that does not mean they...