Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of the uncertainty could be eliminated, of course, if doctors could tell, while a prostate cancer is still small, if it is the lethally aggressive or relatively benign type. In other words, whether a man will die of it or merely with it. "The challenge," as the British Medical Journal editorializes, "is to separate the pussycats from the tigers and identify aggressive tumors...
...right cream rinse will make you happier, or there are no problems that can't be solved in half an hour. You know, the kind of quick-fix thinking that might lead someone--a politician, say--to believe that the V chip will be more than just a benign distraction from the genuinely thorny problems--actual violence, say--facing American kids...
...Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government. It was a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights, not a benign declaration of Southern pride...
...watching TV violence brief or lasting? Is TV as important a factor in fostering societal violence as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes? And in any event, is it really possible--or desirable--to manage kids' exposure to a cultural environment that can never be entirely beneficial or benign? From gangster movies in the '30s to horror comics and rock 'n' roll in the '50s, pop culture has always been strewn with pitfalls for youngsters. Sheltering kids from such things is largely futile; most seem to survive in spite...
...differences at the expense of the Bosnian Serbs. The spoils from a joint military campaign to expel the Bosnian Serb nation would be allocated mainly to a Muslim entity, which would then accept its lot as a satellite of Greater Croatia. There is a precedent for what amounts to "benign ethnic cleansing." Croatia, with Washington's blessing, invaded the U.N.-protected Krajina region in August last year and murderously drove the Krajina Serbs from their ancestral lands. The Dayton accord is in essence a temporary cease-fire. It can be made permanent, provided the international community firmly declares that...