Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work is quite complex, capturing a range of human emotions. "Some people say my pictures are sad. Some think they're funny. Funny and sad, aren't they really the same thing?" says Erwitt...
Dogs recur as an important element in many of his photographs, and Erwitt attributes his fascination with the animals to their "anthropomorphic appeal." "Dogs are simply funny when you catch them in certain situations...But dogs [also] have human qualities...
Health officials cite grim statistics as evidence that they are acting out of fiscal need, not cruel disregard for human suffering. In Alameda, roughly 75% of the county's $278 million health-care budget comes from state and federal sources. But that money is drying up. For example, state funds are currently only about one-half of what the county received in 1982. Health administrators argue that rationing is a pointed way of telling legislators they must bear the responsibility for their budgetary decisions...
...front. He confers with the Soviet leader at least twice a day, discussing topics that might range from the country's ethnic unrest to land leasing and family farms. Foreign Ministry staffers, with their boss's encouragement, have lobbied other branches of the bureaucracy to improve the country's human rights image. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 59, has smoothly refined the notion of glasnost in government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze's native republic of Georgia claimed the lives of 20 people last month...
Compared with Gromyko, Shevardnadze has proved flexible at the bargaining table, willing to concede what is obvious so as to concentrate on the key points of difference. If the "Grim Grom" stubbornly claimed that his country was not guilty of human rights abuses, Shevardnadze admits that such problems exist but emphasizes what the Kremlin is doing to improve the situation. To the surprise of American negotiators at the INF talks, the Foreign Minister quickly accepted the principle of verification, then negotiated hard to cut the best deal for Moscow. Says U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock: "Shevardnadze is firm...