Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conducted an impromptu two-minute service, the commandos started to evacuate the aircraft. By midday Saturday, they had transported the remaining women and children by cars and trucks into Amman. Another 141 passengers, including all men aboard the three jets and ten Jewish and Israeli women (some with dual citizenship), were taken to another?and unannounced?location. After the two caravans departed, the Front's demolition experts did their work, and the three shiny jets were reduced to smoking rubble...
...N.A.E.P. project is a census-like survey of what four age groups-nine, 13, 17 and 26 to 35-know in ten subject areas. From now through 1975, there will be statistical accountings, and periodic reassessments, of knowledge in citizenship, art, music, literature, mathematics, reading, writing, social studies and career development. Future reports -still retaining the basic age-group system-will be broken down geographically, sexually, racially and environmentally. The long-range purpose of national assessment is "to measure changes in knowledge and skills and improve the quality of education in the nation...
...Leary's basic complaint is that the astronaut program is considerably more operational than scientific because of the U.S. test-pilot syndrome. He paints a wry picture of the scientist-astronaut suffering second-class citizenship at the Manned Spacecraft Center. It is true that, while the Russians have already sent astronauts who are predominantly scientists aloft, no American scientist-astronaut has yet been assigned to a space mission...
...spirit sometimes speak in voices that are capable of chauvinism and boosterism, they very often feel an intensely deep patriotism. To begin with, observes Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, "many Americans are first, second-or third-generation. The proudest moment in the lives of their parents or grandparents was the citizenship ceremony when they received the flag. My own immigrant father took every chance to fly the flag as an affirmation of citizenship. You don't have to do this in England or France, where nationhood is deduced from history. Here you've got a created country with a continuing history...
...Citizenship may negate revolution in the state, but citizenship in the state does not generate corporate citizenship. Walzer forcefully insists on a right of revolution against corporate authority. Judged as a political community rather than a piece of property, the corporation is an authoritarian system, "The issue is not ownership but what ownership entails...