Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father from arrest. The fact that my school had close links with France did not prevent it from getting rid of its Jewish students...
...Drought and crop failures have not gone unnoticed. Wealthy donor nations have pledged hundreds of thousands of tons of foodstuffs. Distribution networks exist to allocate the food. Relief convoys stand ready to move it. All that separates millions of malnourished Ethiopians and Sudanese from the food that could save their lives is a handful of stubborn men: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Lieut. General Omar Hassan el Bashir, the head of Sudan's 15-man junta, and the rebel leaders opposing them. All are more intent upon winning their wars than feeding the people they are supposedly fighting...
...same time, begin preparing for a possibly catastrophic future. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an insurance policy against such major economic and ecological disasters. After all, if we pay a little now to develop alternative energy sources or recycle papers and metals, we are sure to save a lot later...
...police finally found Stuart by following the sound of squad-car sirens audible over his open phone line. They arrived too late to save Carol Stuart, 30. Her son Christopher was delivered by Cesarean section but lived for only 17 days. Hospitalized for more than a month, Stuart did not attend his wife's funeral. Instead, he wrote a farewell letter to her that was read at the service: "I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine, but I will always feel you. I miss you, and I love...
...dilemma for Gorbachev is an excruciating one. He has been spearheading internal democratization while struggling to keep reform, especially in the Baltic States, from spinning out of control. Two weeks ago, the Lithuanian party declared its independence from Moscow and, to save itself, lined up with the republic's strong separatist movement. Earlier last month, the Lithuanian parliament voted to abolish the party's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power -- a move Kremlin leaders have been resisting on the national level. Just last week the Latvian parliament followed its neighbor in eliminating the Communist Party's unique leading role. Lithuanian party...