Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gilligan found that boys viewed situations in terms of hierarchy and systemic power while girls saw the world through a network of human relations. Gilligan's studies of men note recurrent imageries of violence...
...civilian research and development. The investment tax credit, which was eliminated in the 1986 tax-reform act, should be restored -- as long as consumption taxes are levied to make up the revenue loss. Companies should receive credits for investments not only in plant and equipment but also in human capital, like spending on worker training. Perhaps a third of the Pentagon's research and development should be gradually shifted to projects with commercial value...
...During the campaign, political leaders agreed to withdraw TV spots that showed carabinero security forces beating citizens. In return, police provided protection for opposition rallies and marches. Yet such fragile alliances could easily be shattered by embarrassing demands. For example, most opposition groups want to prosecute the military for human- rights violations. But moderate parties are willing to overlook old abuses in exchange for assurances that new ones will not occur...
...safe this fall; the ambitious "dramedies" of the past few seasons have mostly been supplanted by old-fashioned gag comedies. That isn't necessarily bad. The season's funniest new show, NBC's Dear John, hardly advances the art of the sitcom, but it surely restocks it with human-scale humor. Judd Hirsch stars as a divorced schoolteacher gingerly exploring the single life. On his first visit to a singles group, he meets a sly assemblage of oddballs, including a group leader fixated on sex and a hilariously sleazy skirt chaser (Jere Burns doing Dan Aykroyd's E. Buzz Miller...
...best journalists, like the best scientists, turn their lives into acts of discovery. If Three Scientists and Their Gods gives us a hint into the meaning of human life, it is less in the facts it presents, than the investigative process the book both describes and represents. The search itself has given meaning to the lives of the three scientists and indeed, to the life of their biographer: amid their many differences in interests, ideal and temperament, this god of discovery and restless seeking informs all their lives...