Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weber ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court captured the spirit of the civil rights movement. Such an interpretation can act to reassure many that possibly the American dream can be realized...
...Harris was widely criticized as inexperienced in housing matters, but she shook up the department, which had been demoralized by past scandals, and gave it a solid sense of purpose. Declared one veteran official: "For the first time, I think we have a sense of mission and movement." Within the agency, she stressed affirmative action in promoting women, blacks and hispanics. Of Harris' appointees half are women, 21% are black and 7% are hispanics. Comptroller General Elmer Staab praised HUD, under Harris, for becoming "a forerunner in dealing with program fraud." Harris strongly pushed subsidized housing for the poor...
...Party. Ramírez was first exposed to opposition politics as a law student at the National University of Nicaragua in the early 1960s. After graduating, he took an administrative job at the Council of Central American Universities in Costa Rica and seemed to lose contact with the revolutionary movement. He did postgraduate work at the University of Kansas, where he learned English, and taught in West Germany before returning in 1974 to Costa Rica, where he joined the struggle to topple Somoza...
...Group of Twelve, which sought to link the Sandinistas with less radical elements in the opposition to Tacho's government. Last year, for the first time in 14 years, he returned to Nicaragua as a political representative of the Terceristas, one of three rival factions within the Sandinista movement. When the U.S. failed to persuade Somoza to make even modest reforms following last fall's aborted uprising, Ramírez left the country in disgust. For several months he journeyed to South American capitals and the U.S. to rally support for a renewed push at Somoza...
...biology, which Sulloway considers a tragic mistake. Freud's evolutionary notions of the instinctual and nonrational derive from Darwin, and in the 1890s he had dreamed of wedding psychology to biology. That all changed as Freud and his followers withdrew and obliterated all biological thinking from the movement...