Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program includes four distinct sections: "understanding the South"; the "framework of schooling"; a panel of experts from around the country; and "self-reflection and identity...
...easier to belittle the old than construct something new. The Socialists are already having trouble rallying opposition parties behind a single agenda. The J.S.P., for instance, stands alone in calling for an unarmed, neutral Japan and opposing both the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and Japan's Self Defense Force. Doi has worked hard to play down these positions, but further moderation will be required if she hopes to establish broad support...
...ignore the evidence that discrimination endures. How alluring is the myth that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...
...should be viewed simply as some one whose luck has run out, not as a self-made pariah...
...fact, it would be difficult for Gorbachev to oppose the workers' calls for greater independence from the dead hand of Moscow ministries. That is a central ingredient in his plans to revitalize the Soviet economy by encouraging local initiative. But to be effective, the idea of self-reliance and experimentation had to evolve into more than just a prescription issued from the Kremlin. Gorbachev can take satisfaction and possibly draw some political strength from the evidence in Kuzbass and Donbass that workers may be stirring from the "stagnation" of the Leonid Brezhnev years. The daily Sovetskaya Rossiya put it succinctly...