Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford explained that he acted, in part, out of compassion (see box page 12).
Jobs in the Zoo. Conservatives as well as liberals have embraced the idea of funneling federal money to states, cities and counties so that they could hire the unemployed for public-service jobs, as library clerks, garbage collectors, tree trimmers, zookeepers, among many others. Arthur Burns has proposed a $4...
SANDBURG'S LINCOLN (NBC. Friday, Sept. 6, 10-11 p.m. E.D.T.) is, alas, faithful to the spirit of its source, a poet's exercise in mythmaking rather than a balanced and entirely persuasive biography. The Lincoln created by the populist bard has been the unacknowledged source of all...
> When fighting between Portuguese colonial troops and Mozambique liberation guerrillas was at its fiercest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Custodio Alvim Pereira of Lourenço Marques had little patience with some of the Catholic missionaries who denounced Portuguese atrocities. The denunciations were "Marxist propaganda," he thundered, adding that priests who indulged...
Richard Nixon's forced removal from office was a unique and humiliating punishment. But it was also based on the proposition that no man is above the law and that justice must at least strive for equal treatment of all those who break the law. Compassion might dictate immunity...