Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted that the public outcry thwarted the Defense Department's plans to wound dogs by firing squads so that military doctors can learn to treat the injuries [Aug. 8]. But I mourn for the pigs, cattle, monkeys and other animals that continue to endure hell in slaughterhouses and research laboratories. When they cry out, no one listens...
...minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten up in his cell by the prison director and other high-ranking officials. After they had left, José Maria's back was just one vast, bloody wound. Even on the dawn of their execution, prisoners are unable to have the support of a priest...
...Bethlehem's robotics operations. "I could not accept it at first," he said. "I was always above the crowd. Then suddenly I had the props knocked out. It can destroy your confidence in one day." With the support of his wife and Bethlehem's family counseling, he wound up in another city with a better-paying job in his field. Now, says he, "I feel like a success, and pity those left behind at Bethlehem...
...wound laboratory opened as scheduled, it might also have become a target of critics of Government waste: Defense Department researchers were planning to pay licensed dealers $80 to $130 for each doomed dog, instead of buying unclaimed dogs from humane societies-which would have put them to death anyway-for as little as $3 to $ 10 a head...
...Games, France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin, then president of the International Olympic Committee, shook his head and declared, "The Games must be less expensive." Nice point, Baron. Unfortunately, national pride intent on outdoing predecessors has blossomed, and so have the deficits. The 1976 Montreal gathering, for instance, wound up $1 billion in the red, and the Moscow Games three years ago required a nation-strapping $9 billion to stage. But last week, with a year to go and counting, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, a private group, seemed well under way toward bringing off an audacious pledge...