Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public cannot be asked to swallow, without questioning, the financing of research that has been called both the hope for mankind and a shortcut to doomsday...
...must realize that there can be only one kind of peace in this world: peace for all of us, or peace for none of us...Although we stand here today as individuals, none of us has either the capacity or the right to isolate himself from the rest of mankind, or to divorce his personal well-being from the well-being of his fellow men--whether at home or abroad...
...survivors. It must be borne a bit at a time until Americans revise the way they live. Contrary to William James' phrase, today it is not Nature that needs to be subdued, and perhaps not even Human Nature. There is a very real desire, shared by mankind the world over, for a common cause, even a common destiny. But what is required to provoke enlistments today is not as simple as war. Carter's program is so complicated in part because the paradoxical balance of free enterprise and federal supervision, of expansion and conservation, must be maintained...
...thing straight, and I think most people around here--with the exception of those feudal lords in the Population Center who ordered my car towed in the first place--would agree: Pat's Towing Service is a disgrace to mankind...
...invested with such emotion that few anti-atom groups are pressuring for research into effective alternatives to nuclear power. They emphasize that nuclear accidents at reactor sites could unleash incalculably dangerous radiation. The environmentalists fear that radioactive wastes will be improperly disposed of, thus posing a threat to mankind for thousands of years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application of nuclear energy seems to be inseparable from the nightmarish images of the atomic...