Word: egalitarian
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Clearly, the parallel is not perfect: Americans are less committed to an egalitarian society, the New Deal and Great Society have lost their appeal in the face of the new selfishness, and one cannot be sure that voters will respond so directly, Still, a welfare state has a certain amount of inertia. One cannot easily deprive people of privileges they have had a taste of, and even Reagan has been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit...
...dynamic society like Mexico the people always want changes, [but] not in the fundamental principles of our system. I have summarized those principles in seven fundamental themes. One general theme is revolutionary nationalism, and the others are integral democracy, egalitarian society, moral renovation, decentralization of national life, all this through a system of democratic planning. The Mexican people want changes within a process of deliberate planning. They want a change of style. One other theme that is important: development, employment and combating inflation. What concerns the people of Mexico most right now is our financial and economic crisis...
...years ago President Carter set off a wave of protest with his explanation that if cutbacks on Medicare funding of abortion meant that poor women would have to give birth when they didn't want to, well, life is simply unfair. Nemy makes Carter look like a raving egalitarian by suggesting that life is chiefly unfair because one cannot always sit next to the person one would like at a classy dinner party (presumably the one party one has chosen after--cruel fate!--one is invited to the customary four in one evening...
Under the revolutionary Sandinista government, which has controlled the country since the overthrow of Anastasid Sornaza in 1979, educational opportunities have also become more egalitarian, Spalter said, "Education is no longer the province of only wealthy Nicaraguans." Spalter explained, adding, "it's a great advance...
...Suppose a fierce egalitarian who thinks Harvard's department in his field is totally overrated gets an offer there." Vansina says, adding that he is not describing his own situation. "That offer is from the establishment they've spent so much effort fighting, and they're liable to resent...