Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some say his hunger for life has an unattractive side; it makes him unreasonable or just plain self-aggrandizing. "He has the qualities and defects of a child," says SMH engineer Jacques Muller, who actually designed the Swatch. "He thinks everything is possible. Unfortunately, everything is | not always possible." Says Hayek's rival and ex-deputy Dr. Ernst Thomke, who claims to have originated the Swatch concept in 1979: "He has to be the big boss, alone, and can never share opinions. He was a consultant all his life, and he wanted to become a marketer and product developer...
These protests culminated in a hunger strike byseven students--which later swelled to includemore than 30 and drew national media attention...
...topic under discussion. On Saturday, the N.A.A.C.P. said it would convene a national summit of black leaders and would pointedly include Farrakhan as a gesture of support, despite expected Jewish condemnation. "We have every right to convene African-American leadership," said Chavis. "There's a deep hunger in our community...
...passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans flew away, and therefore, as a suspect intellectual, he was sentenced to a re-education camp. Brutality in the camp was casual and causeless; what was learned in addition to parroted Marxist self-criticism was fear, hunger and aching homesickness. Jade and the others trapped rats for their guards' suppers and stayed alive by holding back some of the meat...
Reacting against the selfishness and materialism that are sanctified by the competitive market -- and that undermine our ability to sustain loving relationships -- people hunger for communities of meaning that provide ethical and spiritual purpose. They are offered instead a myriad of nationalistic, religious or racial pseudocommunities that never challenge the "look out for No. 1" mentality of the market. So people soon find that their daily lives at work or in family life are just as empty as ever...