Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not since the disintegration of South Viet Nam and the fall of Saigon four years ago had Southeast Asia witnessed such a swift and stunning shift in political power. Faced with the invasion of Cambodia by twelve Vietnamese divisions totaling 100,000 men, the Democratic Kampuchean government of Premier Pol...
One of the few columnists who seems to be managing to escape the fixed-ideology trap is William Safire, even though he began with a political label glued to bis back. Safire is the New York Times columnist (now syndicated to 500 papers) who was hired to offset the Times...
With the 49% growth in the number of civil lawsuits since 1970, courts have seemingly become a forum for redress of all things unfair in life. Old judicial barriers that kept people out of court unless they had been personally harmed have been so loosened that not long ago the...
Finally, democratic institutions simply are not as democratic as they look in civics textbooks. Bureaucrats, who actually run so much of government, may be as insulated from popular accountability as judges, and legislatures are notoriously swayed by special-interest groups. By offering redress to people with no special political clout...
I know this is exam period and we're not supposed to be paying attention to anything but our work--but it still surprises me that Corporation member Hugh Calkins expects his latest absurdly anti-democratic and self-contradictory remarks on the Engelhard library question to slip by unnoticed.