Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Coop begins its second century tomorrow, it celebrates a tradition of communal service, one that began in 1882 when Harvard students united to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood. But ironically, the Coop of 1982 seems more a monopoly than a cooperative. Its vast expansion into Boston markets, in which few students participate, has helped deprive students of the membership control that was once a hallmark of the Coop...
...Reagan certified is that the Salvadoran junta is making continual progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms, including the land reform program This assertion has not been supported even by President Duarte In a report commissioned by the head of the Salvadoran junta the strictly anti Communist Union Communal Salvadoran (UCS) wrote that "the land reform program is failing, in part because of military-backed terror and murder." The significant portions of the land reform, the second and third phases, have been abandoned, so in effect the program does not exist...
...reservations, in the end, boil down to the reluctance administrators feel about limiting housing "rights" to further communal ends. Epps, for example, says a random lottery "would treat every student as if that person had not developed any views or interests; it would tend to assume that people are robots instead of human beings with values and tastes." Under current policy, he says, "You run the risk of having stereotypes and alienation develop. I would run that risk...
Four of us communal-living, celibate, nonsmoking, diet-conscious Franciscan Mars took TIME's life-expectancy quiz conjointly. It was a puzzlement. Friar No. 1, reasoning he lived with neither spouse nor friend, subtracted 1 point. Friar No. 2, claiming Friar No. 1 as his friend, added 5. Friar No. 3, a happy sort (add 1), was unhappy (subtract 2) that Friar No. 1 was friendless. Friar No. 4, to his consternation, had passed on last year...
...times, Chinese agricultural officials confess that such precepts were unworkable. "The speed of development in the past was not very fast," admits Peking Ministry of Agriculture Official Liu Xu-mao. It seems to have accelerated now that China's peasants no longer must eat out of one big communal...