Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...must be banned, the United Nations must produce eight billion condoms"). Perhaps there is some way out--solar energy, if it is developed quickly despite the neglect of our government, might buy us one more decade to face our troubles. But technological gadgetry is not enough to solve the human failings that have placed us in this predicament; maybe nothing is enough. Maybe there's just personal salvation: in a life spent trying, a life spent setting a non-violent yet non-compliant alternative to the irrational as it builds from every side and all around, a life fighting battles...
...alternate meal plan" of' cold sandwiches and fruit after they had repeatedly flung their hot meals at the guards, Joseph Landolfi, public relations representative at Walpole, said yesterday. He said prisoners were creating safety and sanitation problems for guards by also pelting them with food containers filled with human excrement...
...Susan Jacoby, assistant director of Family and Friends of Prisoners, a prisoners, rights group, said yesterday prisoners have made demands--which Walpole administrators refuse to acknowledge. The prisoners are asking for "basic human decency" rather than anything concerning the running of the prison, she said...
Democrats who respond to the "mandate" of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan's blatant appeal to human greed and senile values--others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year...
...Last year the bank lent over $12 billion, up from $1 billion in 1968, when McNamara was appointed president. In an emotional farewell speech to the bank's annual meeting last month, McNamara defended often unpopular foreign aid to underdeveloped countries. Said he: "Investment in the human potential of the poor is not only morally right, it's very sound economics...