Word: human
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...benefit the poorest of the poor, whose lot is worsening daily. This situation has led the churches to begin asking themselves whether their present engagement in African development is not detrimental to the point of being anti-development, i.e., anti-social justice, anti-self reliance and anti-a decent human life for all in society...
...primary agenda-setter for the churches in Africa. Outside Africa it is regarded as representing the "total voice" of the churches on the continent. Its unequivocal support for the armed struggle being waged by the liberation movements in southern Africa, its vocal protests and denunciations of violations of human rights in Burundi, Equitorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Central African Empire and several other independent African nations, and its successful attempts to promote reconciliation and justice in Zaire, Nigeria and the Sudan have all served to enhance the stature and credibility of the African churches before the world...
There was agony, ecstasy and ambivalence. That's what 26 miles, 385 yards of running do to the human body...
...news that we possess the resources, technology and the imagination to adequately feed all of the four billion human beings who walk the earth; what we lack is the will...
Slade is also an accomplished writer of one-liners, which are not only funny but rooted in universal human fears. "When a friend dies, you lose a friend," sighs Scottie, "but when you die, you lose all your friends." There's more in that than just a well-turned phrase. A few lines don't work, and the play could use some trimming before it settles down in New York. One rude piece of psychological claptrap ought to be immediately excised: one of those Death of a Salesman-type closet skeletons, involving the time when little Jud woke...