Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims into the painful stages of mental illness and raises medical costs. He warned that the pain may cause even higher suicide rates among AIDS victims, and that the high costs will increase pressure to legalize euthanasia. He said he favors home-based or hospice care as a more human alternative to institutionalized care...
Politics used to be entertaining. But now I find myself gagging uncontrollably each time I hear a candidate's $50,000 TV commercial explaining why I should consider the smiling bureaucrat to be "One of Us". The fact that these candidates happen to be human isn't enough. The day I find out that George Bush is related to me through any connection other than a purely biological one is the day I take a gun to my head...
Carlucci, meeting today through Thursday with Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov, will also discuss arms control, human rights, the proposed Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and such dangerous military situations as a collision between U.S. and Soviet warships in the Black Sea last month, a senior Pentagon official told reporters yesterday...
...film artists a say in whether their work is "colorized" or similarly fiddled with, Producer George Lucas and Director Steven Spielberg showed up last week at Senate hearings to speak in favor of such legislation. If unchecked, said Lucas, "current and future technologies will alter, mutilate and destroy . . . subtle human truths...
...audience can see her exit as he cannot, and there is something distinctly odd, bad-dreamy about her movement out of frame and, as it happens, out of the normality that Polanski so nicely states in his film's early passages. There is something very human about her husband's -- everybody's -- refusal to admit at first that something unusual must have happened. How desperately we cling to the belief that orderliness is immutable...