Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tarr's Message Was Offensive," a letter printed in the Crimson on February 16, presented a benign view of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). According to the writers, "the PLO works to secure and guarantee fundamental human rights for Palestinians, including the Palestinian right to self-determination...It does not deny these same rights to the Israeli people...
...says Noel Weidner, a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a co-author of the New England Journal paper. Weidner's group is the only one at Harvard--and one of only a few in the world--currently studying angiogenesis, the sudden and dangerous transformation of benign tumors into malignant beasts...
...that proposition seems less clear-cut than it did even a few weeks ago. The horror in Vilnius is a reminder that there is still a lot of trouble, and terror, left in that giant country, not to mention almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. And if Gorbachev's relatively benign foreign policy collapses because of the vicious circle of internal revolt and repression, the West may find itself waging a Cold War II in the coming years. At a minimum, the Soviet Union may be less cooperative in the Security Council the next time Uncle Sam tries to round...
Leading the private-sector initiative is developer James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation, a sort of brain-trust godparent to housing efforts all across the country. Rouse's idea was to combine government incentives, benign capitalism and community energy to build decent, affordable housing. One key to the organization's success is Rouse's knack for persuading corporations to get involved and for pointing out the tax incentives that make it worth their while. If a company invests $1 million in a financing pool for low-income housing, over 15 years it could realize $2.3 million in tax savings...
Once upon a time, an aged inventor (Vincent Price) lived in a mansion at the edge of Any Town, U.S.A. His crowning creation was a young humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp). Alas, the old genius died before he could give Edward human hands. So for many years this benign creature lived alone. Until one day an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) came calling, and then...