Word: human
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Most of the work of Phillips Brooks House Association resembles that of the man who dived in. Soup kitchens and tutoring programs address the immediate needs of very needy people. Public service volunteers bring food and warmth and human knowledge to people starved for lack of resources...
PBHA isn't a college daily, blithely irresponsible for the effects of its actions. It is a human service organization that annually affects the lives of 15,000 people in the community. The PBHA Cabinet consists of the directors of 36 different social service and social action committees, all accountable to the community to provide effective and respectful services...
...curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be getting obscenely rich, but at least the country as a whole is benefiting...
...campaigns on behalf of disarmament and human rights won him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, and he steadfastly argued that without international respect for human rights there could be no guarantee of peace...
White House spokesperson Roman Popadiuk read a statement praising Sakharov as "a historical figure who will be long remembered for his human rights efforts in the Soviet Union. His voice was an important dimension in the contemporary changes under way in Soviet society...