Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Community leaders maintain that there is a special need for black banks. Rejections for black business and mortgage loans run so high in New York that the city's Human Rights Commission recently launched an investigation into bank lending practices. There is also growing concern about the number of branches being closed by big banks in minority neighborhoods. That's why black leaders went all out to rescue Freedom, as they had once before. In 1975, 11 area banks and foundations supplied $4 million in emergency funds to avert a collapse...
...sense the gulf crisis has turned everyone into a student. The public response resembles a massive cram session, as earnest people try to understand the complex forces at work and calculate the potential costs, human and material, of going to war. Until the Administration makes clear whether its goal is to defend Saudi Arabia, or protect the flow of oil, or free Kuwait, or crush Saddam, or punish aggression, or all of these, the public may not be able to find much justice in the cause -- or judge whether it is a goal worth dying...
...done more to change the course of human history than Christopher Columbus." That was the conclusion of Edward Channing's 1905 classic, History of the United States. To generations of American schoolchildren, Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portrayed by Channing and, more romantically, by Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than...
...citizens in Pyongyang still seem eager to attest to their devotion to their leaders, some of their enthusiasm may be quickened by the fact that theirs is one of the most militarized countries in the world (with nearly 900,000 troops among its 21 million people). According to the human-rights group Asia Watch, as many as 150,000 prisoners are kept in the equivalent of concentration camps...
...threat of a war that would destroy his military machine and/or his life. But that would require something like an ultimatum, backed by a genuine readiness to fight, and Saddam might not believe it even then. So the U.S. has to prepare for war. Anyone with a shred of human feeling can say that only with a suppressed scream of fear and pain. The U.S. confronts a bitter, tragic, even ghastly necessity. But, this time, it is a necessity that there is no honorable way to avoid...