Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...virtually disintegrated during the campus upheavals of the 1960s, when millions of students demanded and won the right to get academic credit for studying whatever they pleased. There were courses in soap opera and witchcraft. Even more fundamental, and even more damaging, was the spread of the "egalitarian" notion that everybody was entitled to a college degree, and that it was undemocratic to base that degree on any differentiations of intellect or learning. "The idea that cosmetology is just as important as physics is still with us but is being challenged," says Curtis...