Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saxe's attorney, Nancy Gertner, said yesterday, "We made a good deal. Facing a practical choice, we made a practical decision." Saxe was scheduled to go before Judge James Roy, who Gertner said, "has no reputation for compassion."
A. Very simple. I didn't spend the time on national politics. My interest is people and problems. Always has been. I had a very interesting misconception, which was if you did a good job, really had strength and compassion and people felt it, that was what it took...
A Log Is a Log Is a Log. "Masterworks in Wood" covers a lot of ground, once over and rather lightly. One of the oldest objects in it, a lean and time-scarred funerary horse, was made in China late in the Eastern Chou dynasty, some 2,200 years ago...
Given Carter's own understanding of the issue, his campaign rhetoric of "love" and compassion for the poor, his indebtedness to black voters, and his characterization of the Vietnam war as "racist," it would be hypocritical for him to grant an amnesty that effectively discriminated according to race and class...
Typically, Califano sounds unintimidated. "We are looking at a variety of reorganization programs," says he. "There were a whole raft of programs in the '60s followed by eight years when there was no attempt to work with any degree of compassion. We'll take the best of those...