Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headbands are guaranteed to cause headaches, ski poles are the perfect length and sharpness to gouge out the eyes of innocent children and the skis themselves are professionally adjusted to rip apart the skier's knee should he or she fall...
...fully comprehend pain." Leaving aside the years of close observation of animals by wildlife researchers that have proved such statements untrue, there is a fundamental question Mr. Sharfstein, in his concern for mankind's comfort, is ignoring about our future: can the interests of any one species be considered apart, in isolation from, the interests of all others? The answer, as scientists have been urging us to comprehend for decades, is a resounding no. When we brutalize our environment, when we brutalize other species, we brutalize ourselves and our children...
Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...
...committee, apart from Champion andWilliams, includes the IOP's first directorRichard E. Neustadt, future head of the DemocraticNational Committee Ron Brown, Sen. Robert Dole's(R-Kan.) chief of staff Sheila Burke, former IOPAssociate Director Nicholas Mitropolis and formerIOP Director Jonathan Moore...
...defeat Gandhi in the national elections to be held later this year. Meanwhile, the Congress chief minister of another state, Arjun Singh, resigned over charges that he profited from funds misappropriated from a lottery held to benefit child-welfare programs. Observed New Delhi's Statesman: "Things are falling apart for Mr. Gandhi...