Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which sells in some Louisiana markets for about $3.50 per lb. Environmentalists protest that legalized harvesting will only serve as a cover for more poaching. But many wildlife experts disagree. They say that any measure that makes the hides plentiful, and thus less valuable, will discourage the kind of senseless slaughter that brought the animals to the verge of extinction a few decades ago. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Boston and). Madeleine Nash/Chicago
...report the range of our activities and the numerous leaders we met. Ours was the first American delegation to see the destruction in West Beirut. We were also the first group to tour Lebanon under American and Lebanese auspices only. Among the findings of our mission: 1) the senseless bloodshed and destruction are overwhelming, 2) humanitarian aid is desperately needed and is not reaching those who have been victimized by the war, and 3) there is a unique phenomenon in Israel promoted by civilians and politicians seeking peace, the Peace Now movement...
...believe that there is a divine plan that gives reason to my son's senseless death, I would no longer have any use for God. Rabbi Kushner has given me the only basis for any rational understanding or acceptance of this tragedy. There surely has to be a randomness at work in this world. A good and loving God cannot be the one who orchestrates senseless traffic accidents, air crashes, terminal cancer and wars...
...sudden shock of death that affected Britons most profoundly. Bystanders who rushed to help victims of the first blast in Hyde Park were repelled by the senseless attack on ceremonial guards. "I saw one trooper with his head blown off and two others lying on the ground covered with blood," said a businessman. Wounded troopers staggered in the road muttering, "Bastards, bastards." Of the 27 people who were injured by the nail bomb in Hyde Park, 17 were civilian bystanders. Said a worker in nearby Knightsbridge: "The first thing I saw was a middle-aged lady on her hands...
Against all these political and ecclesiastical realities stands one plain fact: these churches more and more need one another. Divisions that developed over the centuries appear hopelessly confusing and senseless to young Third World churches. And they make the Christian Gospel considerably less attractive to the growing number of skeptics in the West. Most fundamentally, the churches recognize the vision of Christian reunion in Jesus Christ's prayer for his followers before his Crucifixion: "That they may all be one ... so that the world may believe." This, says Archbishop Runcie, is "an imperative of the Gospel...