Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...army officers, who were interested in one of the weapons listed in his sales kit: the cluster bomb, a destructive antipersonnel device that scatters tiny bomblets over a wide area. The weapon was ideal for Iraq's relatively unskilled air force, especially after Iran began attacking Iraqi positions with human waves of fanatical young fighters...
Whatever the criticism, Cardoen takes a hard-nosed view of his business dealings. "I don't know of any good weapons," he once told an interviewer. "The weapons shouldn't exist. The problem is the human beings who use them...
Once upon a time, an aged inventor (Vincent Price) lived in a mansion at the edge of Any Town, U.S.A. His crowning creation was a young humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp). Alas, the old genius died before he could give Edward human hands. So for many years this benign creature lived alone. Until one day an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) came calling, and then...
...advisers believe, however, that some sort of official apology might be forthcoming in the final stages of negotiations. The most outspoken comment from De Klerk's circle has come from Deputy Foreign Minister Leon Wessels. Last August he described apartheid as "a dreadful mistake" that did not take "human factors" into account. "An apology is on the minds of many Afrikaners," Wessels says, "but not on the mind of the government...
...term. She counseled spouses of alcoholics and tried to cope with her husband's drinking until she finally realized that she couldn't stop him; the two eventually divorced. "When I really let him go, I began to see that I could not control the life path of another human being." With this recognition, Beattie hunted for clues to her unhappiness and found codependency, an idea that had existed in relative obscurity in addiction circles since the 1970s...