Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also called for the 56,000-strong military to have a freer hand in defeating the guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, who currently number about 6,000. Some Salvadorans fear such a strategy would mean ignoring a sizable increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
Those shadowy units seem to be expanding their business again. Human-rights groups estimate that death-squad activity -- the kidnaping and killing by unidentified gunmen of civilians suspected of leftist sympathies -- has trebled since last year. One rights group, Tutela Legal, identified 24 undisputed death-squad killings in all of 1987; this year's toll stood at 21 by the end of April. (By comparison, Tutela counted 29 executions of civilians by the guerrillas in 1987, vs. 17 so far this year.) Most Salvadorans believe the upsurge in right-wing terrorism is the work of military men frustrated by their...
...which must be approved by the full commission before it goes to the President, is already being hailed by health professionals and AIDS activists as a courageous national strategy. Says Mathilde Krim, co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research: "It is a comprehensive report. It is a human report. And it is an intelligent report...
...America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom he describes as a "warm and wonderful human being," but "totally incapable of focusing in on any issue...
Punctuation, in short, gives us the human voice, and all the meanings that lie between the words. "You aren't young, are you?" loses its innocence when it loses the question mark. Every child knows the menace of a dropped apostrophe (the parent's "Don't do that" shifting into the more slowly enunciated "Do not do that"), and every believer, the ignominy of having his faith reduced to "faith." Add an exclamation point to "To be or not to be . . . " and the gloomy Dane has all the resolve he needs; add a comma, and the noble sobriety...