Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party poll showed that 47% of the government's top bureaucrats would just as soon have some other system. But so far, no one knows what that might be. "The politburo keeps talking about evils like peaceful evolution [the gradual erosion of communist control]," says a party economist. "There is only one evil: low growth...
Large corporations roam Washington these days like grazing beasts--not good, not evil, just hungry. They form green-sounding lobbying groups and contribute millions to lawmakers. Something called the "National Wetlands Coalition" raised $7.8 million from British Petroleum, Georgia Pacific, Kerr-McGee and Occidental. The "Clean Water Industry Coalition" raised $15.8 million from Caterpillar, Dow, Du Pont and Union Carbide. Al Meyerhoff, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says, "Industry lobbyists are writing laws and legislative history. They're doing everything but voting, but maybe that's next...
...SURE YOU CAN DESCRIBE THE Tokyo poison-gas attack as "A New Kind of Evil,'' as you did in your table of contents. Previous press reports attest to the blood-drenched credentials of world religions. Disputes in Iraq, Iran, India, Israel, Croatia and Northern Ireland involving Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Protestants and Catholics are examples of deeply rooted religious fervor. From the Catholic Inquisition to abortion-clinic-doctor killings, history shows again and again where the real lack of "peace and security'' originates...
...Japanese government of that time, which used the state religion, Shinto, for the purpose of unifying Japan. The members of Soka Gakkai simply want to learn how to practice to be good Buddhists: to be kind, merciful and warm to the sick and poor, and not to yield to evil authority...
...spent several weeks in France with a family some relatives knew. Wine, and now and then something a little stronger, was de rigeur at dinner. How 'empowered' I felt when I bought my first bottle of cider at a roadside creperie! Was alcohol really the evil seductress whose wiles had long been eschewed by elementary school filmstrips? Again, I had to differ...