Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assuming that the funds are gone," said City Treasurer James T. Maloney, adding that it is unclear how the budget cuts will affect different departments within the city. Cambridge state Reps. Alvin E. Thompson and Peter A. Vellucci predicted Monday that schools, fire, police and human service departments would be among the hardesthit...
...parents went out that weekend in 1969 and bought a television set so they could watch it. Like the rest of the nation, they were enthralled and enraptured by the prospect of a human being setting foot on the surface of another world...
...forced to consider under what circumstances it might be immoral, and to show tolerance for the thinking of the other side. The same process might persuade pro-lifers to acknowledge that a fetus does not develop in a vacuum but entwined in the flesh of another human being with rights and a life that could unravel if the pregnancy is carried to term...
...under varying rules, amid moderate controversy. Roe told abortion supporters and opponents alike that it was all or nothing at all, a Manichaean battle in which compromise was impossible. A generation of social-issue conservatives was politicized and mobilized. As a result, today's Republican Party officially endorses a human-life amendment that would not merely return the abortion issue to the states but would constitutionally ban abortion except to save the mother's life...
...also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind Democrats have been in more often in recent years: trapped between the demands of a vocal interest group at the core of their party and the preferences of the moderate voters whose support they need. They cannot abandon the human-life amendment without hell to pay. Now that it matters, they cannot continue to trumpet this extreme position without at least heck to pay. It will be an albatross around their necks. Already it is a pleasure to watch Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican candidate for mayor of New York City...