Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted, these surveys could be completely bogus. Perhaps the Indy staff interviewed only social misfits. Or perhaps they just interviewed one another...
...attempts to disrupt social and political stability...can only seriously threaten the implementation of necessary change and bring the society into a crisis with unforeseeable consequences," the 67-year-old leader said on television...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...business groups, Tsongas said, must develop "a reasonable social contract with government...
Despite this public resistance, legalizing some form of marriage for gay couples is probably the logical outcome of the drive for domestic-partnership rights. "Given the fact that we already allow legal gay relationships," writes Andrew Sullivan in the New Republic, "what possible social goal is advanced by framing the law to encourage those relationships to be unfaithful, undeveloped and insecure?" Marriage involves the obligation to support each other both in sickness and in health and to share financial benefits and burdens. It implies, at least in theory, a commitment to a long-term and monogamous relationship. The advent...