Word: tragically
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...society--plagued as it is by tragic infant mortality and lack of access to prenatal care--is the subject of the following thesis...
...following thesis deals with the tragic problems of infant mortality and lack of access to prenatal care that continue to plague our society...
...home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms of navigation that often get them lost. The earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of disintegration -- the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary scale...
...took up the issue of the detainees in discussions with Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming the West no longer cared about the fate of the dissidents would be "a tragic mistake...
...comparison as "equally tragic" the deaths of 1,400 Moslem pilgrims and 7,000 Australian pcnguins...