Word: onely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Almost one year ago, attorneys for Stop & Shop first approached the city, expressing an interest in purchasing Riverside Rd. in order to construct a Stop & Shop superstore. The company already owned a smaller store on adjacent land but needed extra space for its larger building...
...doesn't look like one," Adamec spluttered. "It is one...
...also hints of potential rifts within the Civic Forum. Until now, the organization has striven to encourage consensus and avoid partisan affiliation. "The Civic Forum's purpose," says Havel, "is to be a bridge between the totalitarian system and true pluralistic democracy." But popular heroes are already emerging. One is Valtr Komarek, 59, director of the official Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. An academic with a magnetic speaking style, Komarek seized the nation's imagination last weekend with a nine-minute televised address that detailed Communist incompetence in economic management. By the Monday strike, posters...
Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that...
...those subject to forced repatriation, the plan will seek to set up a monitoring system to ensure that they are not punished by the Vietnamese government. But that was small comfort for one group of boat people in Hong Kong, who hung from their windows a banner reading, WE WOULD RATHER DIE HERE THAN GO BACK TO VIET...