Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, not exactly. While ignorance can be forgiven, willful ignorance cannot. And that brings us to Harvard Yard, and the investment practices of this University...
...week's violence came on the day before nominations closed for Nov. 19 elections to form a provincial council in the new northeastern Tamil province. The Tigers say the council will have too little power, and have labeled those who support the election as traitors "who will not be forgiven." The point was ruthlessly driven home last week when three members of Tamil organizations taking part in the voting were shot dead...
...growing number of experts now believe that some debt of the developing countries should be simply forgiven. Until recently that was a radical proposal to voice in the company of Western creditors. Economic consultant David Smick, president of Smick Medley International, recalls a 1986 conference in which a banker suggested that a Third World debtor should be treated like a financially troubled company whose outstanding obligations should be partly forgiven. "Two years ago, that was a renegade view," says Smick. "Now half the bankers share...
...load by $18 billion within five years. Some of the loans will be exchanged for equity stakes in Brazilian businesses. The banks will suffer losses, although technically Brazil did not default on any of its loans. As the bankers view the transactions, the loans have been reduced but not forgiven...
...displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they may be evil incarnate. Only one thing is certain: no good deed is ever forgiven, and that insight informs O'Connor's fictions with a perverse brilliance...