Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood is in a powerful position to reinforce these emerging trends by writing occasional script lines that model a new norm of social behavior," Winsten said in a prepared statement...
William DeJong, research director of SPH's Center for Health Communication, which is sponsoring the project, said the center hoped "to affect a fundamental shift in social norms, to effect a schism in people's minds between the act of drinking and the act of driving...
Third, we need to streamline and speed the legal system. Unless we can break the logjam in our courts and prisons, any increase in crime (due to the social stress we will surely experience) may undermine the rule of law entirely. If we must sacrifice certain safeguards and privileges, it will be to retain our basic liberties...
...novel's rather soapy second half: to find a nice, sexy, feminist man for Polly. Why is this soapy? Because the author misplaces the fine edge of irony with which she described the lesbian Jeanne. Her tone becomes ever so slightly earnest. And earnest, in the writing of social comedy, is what it is very important...
...agreement ends 15 years of land-claims wrangling and clears the way for the social and economic development of an area roughly the size of Texas. Besides land and cash, the native people will receive 10% of royalties from minerals, oil and gas that may lie beneath the tundra, as well as traditional fishing and hunting rights over an additional 600,000 sq. mi. of boggy terrain. Said Alexis Arrowmaker, an elder of the Dogrib tribe: "The young generation is going to appreciate what we've done...