Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitution has its other, mundane life. Down at sea level, where people struggle along in law courts and jailhouses and abortion clinics, where lives and ideas crash into each other, the Constitution has a more interesting / and turbulent existence. There the Constitution is not a civic icon but a messy series of collisions that knock together the arrangements of the nation's life. Those arrangements become America's history -- what its people do, what they are, what they mean. Walt Whitman wrote, "I contain multitudes." That is what the Constitution does -- an astonishing feat considering the variety of multitudes that...
...screening and tracing outweigh the invasion of some individuals' privacy. Sometimes a "concern for civil liberties has led us astray," argues Ethicist Ronald Bayer of the Hastings Center think tank, who is a strong advocate of contact notification. "Obviously this is no panacea; the case is strongest where the level of infection is still quite low. But it seems to me that the right to know is also a civil right...
...true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level but to create space for the exceptional while protecting general access to it with doctrines of equal rights...
...reaching proposals of his almost 28 months in $ office, Gorbachev outlined plans for reforming slothful management and industrial practices. He called for reduced central control of the economy and reform in "planning, pricing, finance and credit." He also demanded a "drastic extension" of independent decision making at the factory level. To increase productivity, he proposed that workers share in factory profits and enjoy incomes without fixed ceilings...
...Washington, White House officials disclosed last week that Syrian President Hafez Assad had accepted a written proposal from President Reagan for high-level talks on a variety of issues. The U.S. envoy to Damascus is likely to be Ambassador to the United Nations Vernon Walters...