Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesson to be taken from our nation's recent experience is that the young people sucked into the military, in war-time or in peace, are not to blame for and cannot be the focus of our anger and shame at our government's policies. Thus Professor Laurence W. Wylie's labeling of ROTC students as "students who wanted to practice killing their fellow human beings" is deeply disturbing...
...high school. But if one is not so fortunate as to be born to a well-off family, one will have no choice but to enter the "Citizens Corps." The gross unfairness of that situation is itself a damning criticism of the bill: how can we as a democratic nation take seriously a policy that explicitly exempts the rich from requirements made of the citizenry...
...wide-ranging address before 125 people on the political status of the gay rights movement, Frank, one of the nation's two openly gay members of Congress, said that recent federal legislation has prevented AIDS from being used as the basis for discrimination against gays...
...Babbit related his experience of standing in line with his young son at a shelter for the homeless. When they encountered a 12-year-old kid by himself, the son turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before...
...brought, stumbling and blinking in amazement, into the light of a new era. In the tradition of Peter the Great, who opened up Russia to the West almost 300 years ago to rescue it from backwardness, Gorbachev is trying to transform, neither slowly nor surely, every aspect of his nation's political, economic and psychological life...