Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
Following Zia's sudden death in a plane crash last August, Bhutto began a cross-country campaign to gain the post of prime minister, promising to safeguard human rights, lift restrictions on the freedom of the press and improve the education and well-being of the country's poor...
...that income level, a family has other priorities, such as food and rent, says Susan Wilhelm, the staff director of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources. Thus, children would never benefit from the funding, she says...
...letter read in part, "We are convinced that a firm and ongoing commitment to the expansion of human rights in China is in America's best national interests...
...many have said the president regards as his principal legacy. In his first public response to the criticisms levelled at the Kennedy School, Bok called on the school to pursue a curriculum that would help public servants "move beyond being mere bureaucrats and technicians to become the kinds of human beings to whom we would willingly entrust decisions that affect our lives...