Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real reply should be that the measuring of Blacks against other minorities attempts the impossible--comparisons between the experiences of minority groups in America. The tragic consequence of these baseless comparisons is that some Blacks, rather than refusing to be held up for comparison with other groups, attack the group to which they are being unfavorably compared. The attempt of certain Blacks to downplay the importance of the holocaust points up this tendency to deprecate the suffering of another minority...
...painstaking search for the cause of the world's worst space disaster shifted dramatically, and distressingly, in tone last week. After 24 successful space-shuttle flights, the explosion of Challenger and the loss of its seven crew members had been widely viewed as a tragic but virtually inevitable cost of pioneering on the high frontier of space. As it one day must, so it was said, ill fortune had finally overtaken the methodical, ever cautious, technological wizards of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Declared President Reagan on that fateful day: "It's all part of the process of exploration...
Their deaths are tragic, but no more so than the death of any human being, a soldier killed in a war or a civilian killed by a drunk driver. Nancy Reagan agreed to serve as honorary chairman "to lend legitimacy to the fund." What she and others do not understand is that no celebrity's name or endorsement can ever lend legitimacy to a program that devalues human lives by placing them in an artificial hierarchy...
Though no one denies the potential for a devastating epidemic, the worst consequences of AIDS so far have been its tragic impact on a relatively small number of individuals and the antipathy it has generated toward groups at highest risk...
...quickly excluded the Notarnicola family as suspects. In nearby New Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a tragic situation, as happened after the Chicago killings, when Con Man James W. Lewis went to prison for ten years for sending a $1 million extortion note to Johnson & Johnson...