Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, there are innumerable challenges left for the women's movement. But activists can congratulate themselves for having accomplished much in a surprisingly short time. Says Joanne Alter, a Chicago Sanitary District commissioner: "Sure, we have a long way to go. But remember, the women's movement is very young. Nine years ago, when I would talk about a woman on the Supreme Court, people would look at me as if I were crazy." No longer. Sums up Pam Faust, executive director of the California State Commission on the Status of Women: "The changes are valid and profound...
...mere general reminder to save their money. Says Cone: "What people need is more specific feed back about how much [energy] they are really using on a daily basis." Americans, in other words, must not merely be told but convinced of their self-interest before they will alter their habitual behavior even in a minor...
...American black community. For although he sympathetically argues that the black nationalism of the '60s served as a defiant response to the racial shame American blacks have suffered for two centuries, he also points out that all the posturing and celebration of blackness has done nothing to alter blacks' marginal economic position in American society. An even more dramatic charge follows: the "black power" movement was partially responsible for reviving and legitimizing ethnicity as a principle of political action, and that this weapon of politicized ethnicity is now being used against blacks. One only has to look at the alliance...
...violent thunderstorm raged above St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 18, 1870, the bishops of the First Vatican Council adopted a decree that would alter Christian history. A Pope, they declared, is infallible when he defines doctrines of faith or morals ex cathedra (from his throne) and such dicta are "irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though...
...face of this increasingly evident intransigence, the Carter administration's response thus far has been overly cautious, if not to say timid. Although symbolically significant, the U.S. agreement in the United Nations last week to a mandatory embargo on all military sales to the Vorster regime does not substantially alter America's official posture, which for over a decade has been voluntary refusal to deal arms to South Africa. The U.S. decision, meanwhile, to use its Security Council veto to block proposals for equivalent embargoes on trade and investment suggests that the Carter administration still holds out hope for bringing...