Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roman general once said he could live without a friend but not without an enemy. The same assertion could be made about the women's movement, which won just enough concessions in the 1960s and '70s to induce a sense of complacency. A new generation of college-educated women, having never witnessed a female Phi Beta Kappa being told to make the coffee, considered radical feminism as outdated as Gloria Steinem's aviator glasses. By the presidential campaign of 1988, George Bush could flirt with the idea of recriminalizing abortion, knowing the women's movement was not strong enough...
...movement may be getting a jolt from a hostile Supreme Court, whose ruling in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
...know, what men used to say about the Women's Movement--Does this mean I can never open a door for a woman again? It's almost the same thing...
There was apparently no movement on the issues that prompted the strike--chiefly a NYNEX plan to require workers to begin contributing to their health insurance costs--and the two sides were unable to agree on a negotiating format...
...civil rights movement never did really come to Keysville, and I'll admit that I was one of those who never really thought we needed it. Things were fine -- until we started trying to get something. There had been no problems because no one had ever rocked the boat. I kept reading these newspaper stories about Keysville blacks seeking political power. Then it hit me: power! The whites thought we were looking for power. I was looking for a better life. I had never even thought about what we were doing in terms of trying to get power...