Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ministry spokesman, phrased the development in a joking way last year. On a visit to Washington, he said "The cold war is over, and Japan won." In some views Japan is already achieving economically what it failed to win by force of arms: a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...Oxford English Dictionary defines empathy as "the power of projecting into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation." Another way of expressing this would be to speak of human transcendence-the ability, and most importantly, the willingness of individuals to transcend their own sphere of interest or private life in order to gain greater understanding of another's situation. It is a fundamental sort of generosity, a generosity of spirit and mind which allows the embrace of another's problems, an understanding of another's agony...
...society will not improve without them. But when they are done as "points of light" and not as supplements to an active government and an active society, they increase the separation between the actions in our lives and the actions in our political lives. The mythical private sphere expands, and politics becomes the residual that Reagan and Bush always hoped it would...
...should not believe that agitation for social reform stopped because people sold out. It stopped because the empowered middle classes burned out on the hope for transformation in the public sphere, and directed their energies back to problems they could see and fix one-on-one. It stopped because the issues got harder. But now--in social welfare, in education, in race relations, in environmentalism--individual solutions are inadequate and illusory...
Another problem taken up at the conference was that of South Africa's prosecutors, which have in the past claimed a narrow sphere of responsibilities, Heymann says...