Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every society facing rampant disease has feared social disorder, he said. "Invariably this leads to the ostracism and isolation of victims and scapegoating of Jews, witches, or gays, which restores a false sense of social cohesion," he said...
Schulman called new constitutional interpretations as important as scientific advances that could cure the disease. "Civil rights for Blacks, women and the disabled provide a legal basis for the social resolution of the AIDS crisis," he said...
Despite this optimism, he said he worries about "misinformation" such as the recent Masters and Johnson report which suggested that contaminated people can transmit AIDS through casual social contact...
Despite several coup attempts and continuing political uncertainty, Aquino remains ensconced in Malacanang Palace and has developed a firmer grip on power. Yet her supporters are not convinced that the President will be able to correct long-standing social inequities or steer the Philippines out of moral drift. "Merely staying in power without changing anything is retrogression in itself," Historian Renato Constantino recently wrote in the Philippine Daily Globe. "Personal success is not synonymous with national success...
...repercussions so brutal. The primary reason is crack, the cheap and highly powerful cocaine derivative. The booming crack business has led to unprecedented violence by dealers fighting for their share of the market. Widespread addiction to the drug has helped further shred what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The mean streets of the inner city form the bloody battlegrounds where the war on drugs is being lost. Last week correspondents visited the front lines in three major U.S. cities: Detroit, Miami and Washington...