Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What I object to is the idea that an entire generation born in 1968 and after are all self-serving snobs, while the generation born in the 1950s are all altruistic angels. The habit of generation-naming has become so widespread as to be harmful. Characterizing the '80s as the age of greed totally effaces the behind-the-scenes, unpublic sacrifices made by, for example, child abuse workers, drug counselors, AIDS-hotline staffers, soup-kitchen servers...
Objectivists, who follow the radical libertarian doctrines of the late author Ayn Rand, maintain that capitalism is the sole moral system and that selfishness is necessary for rational decision-making and self-preservation. The Democratic Socialists, however, criticize Ayn Rand-style capitalism as the reduction of all human relationships to the realm of financial transactions...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...
...other words, these professors won't be meeting with students this semester; we'll just have to understand the massive changes in Eastern Europe by ourselves. As a first step towards this noble goal of self-education, I have compiled a diagnostic current events quiz...
Paul G. Ahern, a self-described small landlord said he voted for the proposition because "I think price control has been in the city too long, and there's a bunch of liberals running it." He added that under the system, he does not get enough money to to fix up his property. "It's terrible," he said...