Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great coach and very well liked," Nicholas said. "There's no ill-feeling--it was his own choice. Everybody's sad...
...involved is not the major problem here," said Elizabeth Fay, executive director of the public interest group Common Cause. "The important thing is whether or not our elected officials are setting the example they should be. Cheating the system is cheating the taxpayers. It's wrong and it's sad...
Kopit has certainly dramatized some weighty matter in the past--genocide (Indians), stroke victims (Wings), and dead fathers (the classic Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). But nuclear holocaust is of a whole other dimension, and Kopit here chooses to take a personal approach...
...Well, first and foremost is the fact that people believe in their government, and they have confidence and hope that things will change for the better. My husband used to say that the sad part of the imposition of martial law was that the Filipino people no longer believed in traditional institutions. How can you do anything if the people do not believe in each other or their officials? I don't want to say that this is my achievement. It is the Filipino people together who were able to believe in themselves because of what they were able...
...technology also sabotaged one of the last vestiges of heaven- bent idealism -- the American space program -- when the space shuttle Challenger turned into a fireball only 73 seconds after takeoff. While millions watched on television, the craft and its seven passengers, including Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, disappeared in a sad trail of smoke. The tragedy only deepened when a presidential commission found that the accident had been caused by bureaucratic mismanagement and neglect...