Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizen, I've always been concerned with equality, with issues of social fairness," Verba says. "I think almost all of the books I've written which are of political science research deal with issues of equality...
Verba has written extensively on social, political and economic equality. Equality in America: The View from the Top, which Verba co-authored in 1985, analyzes how the inequalities inevitably arising from capitalism can be reconciled with the equality which must be the root of democracy...
Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...
Ramphele, a "distinguished visitor" at the Bunting Institute, was named South African Woman of the Year in 1983 for her social work at Lenyenye. Next week, she will begin a national tour to promote her new book,Uprooting Poverty in South Africa, co-written by Francis W. Wilson...
Massachusetts has transformed traditional liberal social programs into "good, wise, strong investment" since Dukakis was reelected in 1982, Johnston said, citing commitments to the homeless, the unemployed and working mothers that cannot be abandoned...