Word: system
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...real genocide commonplace. At first glance, statements such as Castro's and those of the U.N. anti-Zionist resolution seem trivial. Though their claims are patently false--the Israeli's have not herded Palestinian Arabs into a Dachau or a Treblinka, nor have they set up their own apartheid system based on the idea that Jews and Arabs are different species of humanity--Israel's attackers seem merely to rewrite history for parochial ends, to falsify terms as part of an easily-recognized scheme. Although they seem trivial, such statements secrete a different, more lethal poison...
Likening judges to spiders "in black robes spinning webs of red tape," Joseph Califano, ex-secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, railed against the influence the judicial system has on federal agencies at the Kennedy School Forum last night...
...concerned about the deep influence of the judiciary in HEW," Califano said. "Courts have been essential to protect rights of citizens in discrimination cases, but we need a probe of the judicial system and their management of HEW," he added...
...will be flying to various ASL cities to join the Stoners each weekend when their season begins in the spring. He will be rejoining what he calls "an emotionally tight" team, all but two of whom have gone through the American college system. "You had to watch your step on the team; if you did something wrong, you'd never hear the end of it," Ost says. Naturally enough, he took a lot of abuse, or "stick" as the team called it, for running into the post. One of the more literate members of the team made up a song...
Thomas misjudges again in "The Health-Care System" where he discusses the "transformation of our environment" into "an immense imdustry...in aid of health." We have become obsessed with health, he contends, and there is something unhealthy about this. "We do not seem to be seeking exuberance in living as much as...putting off dying." While our society may have become a giant whirlpool treatment concerned with collective physiotherapy," Thomas's analysis of our motivation is missing something. He correctly states that we jog and diet because we fear dying, but we may also think we're helping ourselves...