Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assassination goes back to President Ford in 1976. It followed the mid-1970s revelations about CIA covert attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and similar pranks, and is a distant echo of the reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy. But there is nothing in the order limiting the ban to covert action or to attempts on heads of state. It simply forbids "assassination." What is assassination? If the word just means killing someone, anyone, for political reasons, then it effectively bans the use of -- or even conspiracy to use -- lethal force. That would make America the first pacifist...
...question has taken root in the power circles of Washington. It is thrown up at every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into history unless he has some miracle up his sleeve or gets a little of Ronald Reagan's luck. So far, he has not had an oversupply of either...
...moral issue involved here? Or is this simply a reflection of a pragmatic attempt by editors to echo the values and interests of their readers? And does it really make a difference whether Americans know about disasters elsewhere? It certainly does when it comes to amassing donations or building a congressional coalition for emergency relief. It also matters in a less material way because every social contract, from the tribe to the United Nations, is based on recognizing common human bonds. Whether the fault lies with news consumers or with editors who pander to them, the bell ought to toll...
Young based his ruling on the testimony of Dr. Jerome Lejeune, a French specialist in human genetics who testified that the seven embryos each have unique characteristics that distinguish them as human beings. Three other experts argued that the embryos possess only the potential for life. Their views echo those of professional groups like the American Fertility Society, whose ethical committee in 1986 concluded that "the pre-embryo deserves respect greater than that accorded to human tissue but not the respect accorded to actual persons...
...long as I could remember, the slogans on the wall of the women's room were a source of escape, a silent echo of the ups and downs faced by women in a male-dominated newspaper...