Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luminaries like King Juan Carlos, Alexander Solzhynitsin, Olaf Palme, Giscard d'Estaing, and even Burt Ward visit recently. But it took four years for Reagan to find the time to meet with any Soviet leader, and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachov still gets put on hold when he calls to wish Ron a happy birthday. So who are we to complain...
...gold, diamonds, and strategic metals ensure that someone, somewhere, will always do business with Pretoria. Writes John Kane-Berman, director of the Institute of Race Relations and a liberal opponent of the government: "This government is entrenched well into the next century; that is a view, not a wish...
Divestiture advocates should not only recognize how the policy they endorse threatens the community they wish to serve, but should also take into account those cases in which the link between University investment and oppression is much clearer. They should apply a single standard, and call for divestiture from those companies which have been most instrumental in supporting dictatorship, whether it be in Angola, the Soviet Union, or South Africa. Once the perils of divestiture are fully appreciated and the need for a single standard recognized, then will we have a genuine National Divestiture...
...Black and white, where we will live amicably together as God intended us, as members of one family, the human family. And so we ask, help us the last peaceful instrument available to us: your pressure. For nothing in South Africa has changed without pressure. My dear friends, I wish to declare here my endorsement for election to the Board of Overseers of Kenneth Simmons, John Plotz and Gay Seidman." (Bishop Desmond Tutu, LLD '79, January 10, 1986 at the Kennedy School...
...bold new ruling by the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs ought to make it easier for doctors to go along with a family's request to end treatment. After two years of deliberation, the seven-member panel affirmed that patients' wishes, as best as can be determined, should be respected and their "dignity" maintained. It is "not unethical," said the council, for doctors to discontinue all life support for patients who are in irreversible comas, "even if death is not imminent." In its most controversial provision, the council included food and water on the list...