Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much-maligned conservative counterparts in the Democratic party, showed that the country's two major political parties are broad-based enough to encompass a wide range of views. Contrary to some opinions, America's political parties are not mere interest groups serving the interests of a particular region or social class. With Weicker gone, one has to wonder if this is still the case in the Republican Party, which seems more than ever concerned with preserving homogeneity and presenting a united front to the voters than with engaging in the great internal ideological debates that characterize the Democratic party...
...neoexpressionism back in the '50s and '60s. When painting was required to be thin, linear and efflorescent, Kossoff stuck to delving into the images and people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden, 1985, reminds one of how pointless the stereotypes about English...
...Excellence in Government catalogs them in The Prune Book, a just released guide to 116 of the toughest jobs in the capital. Some examples: a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs admits that sometimes "stamina was more important than intelligence" in keeping pace with the travel and social demands of his post. At the Office of Management and Budget, the challenge is "not to cave" in to demands for money. Says a former OMB associate director: "A lot of people are not willing to be unpopular...
...table in frustration, as was the case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
...game, calling for increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since the candidates have admonished the panel to move in different directions...