Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the state legislature's commitment to preserving essential social programs, it will eventually approve Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed tax hike, Massachusetts Secretary of Human Services Philip Johnston predicted yesterday at the Kennedy School...
...coalition building dominated this weekend's network of minority conferences, then curriculum change provided the most immediate outlet for the nascent cooperative activism. While longer-ranging social change clearly occupied the minds of all delegates, immediate boosts in women and minority faculty recruitment and ethnic studies course offerings filled the agendas for all five minority groups. The capacity crowd in Paine Hall and the unanimity of support for the aims testify to the urgency of the demand, leaders...
...There is a social and cultural part to our organization," said Wendell Ocasio. The second part of our organization is the support part. As leaders and members of these organizations it is our mandate and our responsibility...
...government quickly concluded that the attack was mounted by leftist subversives, the first such terrorist assault by the left in almost a decade. Officials were startled that the attackers were members of the Movemiento Todos por La Patria (M.T.P.), a leftist group committed to social change that was formed in 1986 and until now had stopped short of violence. Earlier this month M.T.P. seemed to embrace a more radical agenda, and several key figures have been linked to a defunct ultra-left-wing revolutionary army with strong Cuban and Nicaraguan connections...
...about the final occasions for enthusiasm in the labored, preachy and mostly unfunny revival of Born Yesterday that opened on Broadway this week. When the show debuted in 1946, it made stars of Paul Douglas and Judy Holliday and cemented the reputation of playwright Garson Kanin as a wry social commentator...