Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although not a scientist, he writes clearly and perceptively about several reasonably esoteric subjects--from genetic engineering to the recently-discovered hole in the Antarctic ozone layer. Although his explanations of global warming may seem doom-laden, they contain enough hard facts to give even the least environmentally aware person a serious jolt...
Unfortunately, the liberal response to Reagan's message usually went something like this. Reagan says, "There's a useless layer of bureaucracy up on top of HEW [the Department of Health, Education and Welfare]. And it costs HEW three dollars in overhead to deliver one dollar to a needy person...
...nation's leadership often hears what it wants to hear, but few have seemed quite so deaf to the public's demands as East Germany's rulers. Thousands flee the country, protesters stage hunger strikes in churches, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offers a gentle lecture in person -- none of it seemed to make a difference. But last week as the cries for democratic reform reached a crescendo in cities across East Germany, the leaders in East Berlin demonstrated that their hearing faculties were intact -- and that they were distressed by the rising noise level...
ABOUT 15 years ago, any depressed person could have found some solace in talking to me. "How are you doing?" I might be asked...
...natural question on every person's mind that night when they left was, "What can I do now?" As your front-page article failed to mention, there was a group of persons at that meeting with the answer to that question...