Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in 1940 F.D.R. complained that the "dammed newspapers have made it out that T.V.A. is simply a power agency. Now that isn't the fact. We aren't just providing navigation and flood control and power. We are reclaiming land and human beings...
...budget increases the NSF's funding from $911 million to about $1 billion and provides for additional research on human nutrition and the environment, sub-micron science, and laser chemistry...
...risks (for women who have not had a hysterectomy and who take estrogen) are remarkably high. You don't see anything like it in the human population," Dr. Kenneth J. Rothman, associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said yesterday...
...support, matched by the editorial expressions of major papers across the country mounted an attempt to alter the will of the Iranian people. Heavy-handed gestures including the expansion of U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area further alienated Iranians who had once been inspired by the Carter human rights stance. Even the relatively limited efforts by public and private U.S. organizations to impose a U.S. solution on Iranian disputes have now blocked most chances for the U.S. to work closely with any new Iranian government. Just as the overthrow of the CIA-backed colonels in Greece brought...
...wrong. In fact, pragmatic failures ultimately have their roots in the essentially immoral nature of any such intervention. In Iran, the frustrating, tragedy-engendering contradiction that helped spark the awesome wave of opposition to the Shah lies in the conflict between President Carter's apparent commitment to basic human rights (that had raised opposition hopes that the U.S. would pressure the Shah) and the administration's continued sale of weapons to the Iranian armed forces. When U.S. attempts to restrain the opposition's goals redoubled the anti-Americanism felt by the crowds of demonstrators, their hatred was that of moral...