Word: compassionâ
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...families' grief and rage are hardly surprising. But it is not callous to wonder why?besides simple compassion???this story, like cave-in and child-down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...
...violated all Jimmy Carter's instincts ?his political instinct for the charitable gesture, his personal instinct for compassion???to break his own campaign promise and cut off the golden flow of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. But at the same time he was filled with rage and frustration at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and particularly by what he felt was Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's lying justification of it. He stalked around the White House, bristling with anger. "Because of the way that I've handled Iran, they think I don't have the guts...
...created a million-dollar agribusiness, he is a rural populist, and so he has been suspicious of big interests, including corporations. In just the past several months, however, the President has come to believe that many business chiefs are much like himself?up from the bottom, and not without compassion???and that they may have some provocative ideas about his No, 1 domestic problem: the economy...
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