Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most important resolution, Morobe said, was a demand for non-racial elections for an assembly that would draft a constitution establishing a one-person, one-vote system for South Africa...
...There are many steps along a career path, and every honest politician goes up a learning curve. In the beginning, I felt that Erich Honecker was a person worth emulating because of the way he combined economic achievement with social progress and the great attention he paid to youth affairs...
...maintain its grip. Havel's work depicts the idiocy of entrenched bureaucracies and the power of language to twist and distort ideas. It also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each person is capable, to a greater or lesser degree, of coming to terms with living within the lie." Almost alone in his quest, Havel has refused to compromise...
...some Civic Forum supporters, Komarek is furious that Havel and his colleagues are banking on the political survival of Prime Minister Adamec instead of supporting Komarek for the position. When asked by TIME if he was a candidate for Prime Minister, Komarek responded, "I leave this open. My position personally is very modest. I don't think a well-brought-up person ! should say, 'I want to be Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says, "is the establishment...
...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 she has no personality, no family, and that no one who loves her can make decisions about her." But other experts believe that advocates of self-determination often skip over a basic question in incompetent-patient cases. Asks University...