Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listed achieving a high-growth economy, rewarding work, raising children responsibly, securing basic health and retirement levels and providing international leadership on values as America's top priorities...
...generally effective justice system requires a good deal of fixing, to be sure, and all of society must take part in that effort. But we cannot operate any sort of society if we have no basic confidence in our system. Instead, if the majority of any state supports the use of a weapon more forbidding and dangerous than any thermonuclear device, it ought to be allowed to wield that weapon. It must, however, exercise the utmost caution in the use of that weapon so that the rampant tide of current events, the Curleys and Woodwards, does not unduly influence...
Beyond the issues of affordability and fairness and concerns about aging mothers and disposing of frozen embryos, a single ethical question underlies all assisted reproduction, from fertility drugs to the still untested idea of human cloning: Have we the right to play God by intervening in this most basic of biological functions...
Critics contend, however, that with a little basic research, buyers like Searle and his Art Institute advisers can readily ascertain a work of art's true origins. In many cases, dealers known to have bought or sold art for the Nazis turn up in a work's chain of custody, a red flag signaling a potentially looted object. In the case of Searle's Degas, German dealer Hans Wendland, who operated all but openly as a fence disposing of the Nazi trove, apparently transferred the painting during the war. "It's just obvious that people buying art need...
...Indeed, the resurgence of HIV infection figures for American teenagers is one of the more alarming of the new statistics. Although the virus continues to cut a great swath through Africa, the problem is still a global one. "No country or society is safe from this new challenge to basic human security," insisted U.N. General Assembly President Hennadiy Udovenko. Especially not when half of those infected around the world are under the age of 25. As long as a cure continues to be beyond our grasp, World AIDS Day serves as a warning to the young - no-one's safe...