Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funding for human services, the encouragement of long-term development in the city, and full support of affirmative action were also mandated in the platform...
...McNamara believes the main reason for helping struggling countries is not self-interested economics. Said he: "The fundamental case is the moral one. The whole of human history has recognized the principle that the rich and powerful have a moral obligation to assist the poor and the weak. That is what the sense of community is all about-any community: the community of the family, the community of the nation, the community of nations itself...
While military expenditures have soared, said McNamara, "there are today more than 1 billion human beings in the developing countries whose incomes per head [adjusted for inflation] have risen only about $2 a year: from $130 in 1965 to $150 in 1975. But what is beyond the power of any set of statistics to illustrate is the inhuman degradation the vast majority of these individuals are condemned to ... Malnutrition saps their energy, stunts their bodies and shortens their lives. Illiteracy darkens their minds...
...Star Wars. The result is a cinematic bastard, and a pretty mean bastard at that. Alien contains a couple of genuine jolts, a barrage of convincing special effects and enough gore to gross out children of all ages. What is missing is wit, imagination and the vaguest hint of human feeling. Luckily for Alien's creators, such ingredients are not really essential at the nation's box offices, especially during the sunstroke season...
...arms race is inflationary and wrecking the economy because it's putting dollars into the market and not goods and services. It's taking away from spending on basic human needs," she added...