Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexico City Correspondent Janice Simpson was similarly moved when she covered the gas-tank explosion three weeks ago that left more than 2,500 dead. "People who had suffered great losses were nonetheless eager to help me, to tell their stories," she says. "But I felt a great frustration at having so little to offer them in return." The day after the explosion, Simpson went to a center where names of the missing could be checked against computer lists. Some distraught people took her for an official and asked her to aid them. "I told the first...
...their hospital beds. The pictures were all too real. More human frailty was on display than human progress. Odd how little it takes to pick up the facts involved in so sudden a catastrophe-to learn all about "methyl isocyanate," and how the pressure built up in a storage tank too rapidly for the "scrubber" to neutralize the gas that escaped into the atmosphere. Even a tragedy becomes a moment in technology, as if we feel compelled to advance knowledge at the same time we experience shock and grief. But acquiring information also serves as a deflection of feeling...
Robert Reich, Lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School and author of The Next American Frontier should keep a whole think tank of elves busy this year. His request: "A rosy scenario or upbeat projection." For anything in particular? No, the renowned expert on industrial policy just wants a rosy scenario in general...
...calling itself the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy is any indication, then Americans just might not be ready for the radical changes called for by the Bishops. Jointly headed by former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and Michael Novak of a Washington based think-tank, the lay critics advocated further economic development as the only real basis for greater social justice. The group, composed of notable business leaders and educators like Professor of Government James Q. Wilson, lavished praise on American capitalism, calling it the most effective economic system as well as the most moral...
...Heritage Foundation, a private think-tank which has been a font of ideas for the administration, argues that the controversial idea "would land to a flood of litigation, massive wage redistribution, a distortion of free market principles and, ultimately, widespread job dislocation...