Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broader challenge will be to convince voters that giving to the poor doesn't mean robbing the middle class; in fact, easing poverty contributes to the strength of a society. Alexis de Toqueville wrote that the community's interest is really just "self-interest properly understood." Americans must come to realize that is ultimately in their own interest to make society more equitable...
...proposals for the student center are facilities which the houses either are or should be offering--namely, grills, rehearsal space, common rooms and an atmosphere in which students can interact with faculty without feeling self-conscious. Setting up a student center would merely detract from the camaraderie and community spirit which the houses should foster. Instead of designing an inadequate, poorly-planned "student center," the University should try to revive the neglected house system...
...version of the New York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...
Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed enemy of Washington's bloated bureaucracy, came into office eight years ago vowing to dismantle Jimmy Carter's two additions to the Cabinet, the departments of Education and Energy. He has not only failed to scale back the Cabinet, but is also on the verge of expanding it. This week the President is expected to sign legislation elevating the Veterans Administration to a Cabinet-level department. That will bring the number of Cabinet departments...
...some, Johnson's distaste for academics may seem perfectly rational, but Goodwin believes Johnson's self-control was disintegrating. "I am not Lyndon Johnson's psychiatrist," Goodwin warns, but he does offer his psychiatric analysis of the president and concludes he had an obsessive paranoid personality. It is on this point that Goodwin's critics take issue with...