Word: inhumanities
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...locked up inside all day long." Elizabeth Debray was denied an audience with Bolivia's President Salinas to discuss better treatment for her husband. "I fear," Debray told his wife, "that we will all be transferred to a place in the middle of the jungle where conditions are inhuman...
Finally, for those whose frustrations cannot be expunged by small, subtle victories, Matusow proposes direct confrontation-attacking the inhuman enemy with the most human of weapons: "Women going into a room with a bank of computers are advised to wear a lot of the cheapest perfume they can find." Computers operate effectively only in "clean" air, Matusow explains, and are highly sensitive to environmental changes. Heavy dollops of perfume could paralyze a computer as effectively as they do those of a weak-kneed human office worker...
...stated that Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield noted that after all, even a politician is human. What an asinine statement; Senator Mansfield should be ashamed of himself. Ted Kennedy's conduct was inhuman...
...provides unfettered powers for the government to deal with dissent. Its new "Declaration of Rights" includes provisions for preventive detention and restriction, search and deprivation of property, and laws regulating the press. Though it also promises freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as protection from slavery and inhuman treatment, the declaration leaves the government an all-inclusive out. No court will have the right "to inquire into or pronounce upon the validity of any law on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Declaration of Rights...
...friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically against inhuman labor laws and big banks, but he performed best on the personal level, assuring listeners that, as a onetime Catholic, he "understands the spirit" of believers. Duclos was the first Communist ever to run for chief of state in popular elections. Though his success was primarily a personal triumph...