Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to social worker Debra Gleason, untilrecently customers from Kelly's Roast Beef, whichis directly across the street, would bring theirmeals to picnic benches right in front of thenursing home. Occasionally these diners would stayafter finishing their meals and talk to theresidents for a while...
Justice prevailed this year as Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," displaced the perennial number-one course favorite, Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics...
...radical school of legal thought which holds that the law reinforces prevailing social and economic norms rather than representing fixed, abstract notions of justice. Those opposed to CLS, considered to be conservatives, argue that the teaching of law is based on absolute definitions of what is just. The natural academic battle between CLS adherents, called crits, and the conservatives has wracked the law school making the tenure process extremely volatile and public...
...Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus
...would no longer be permitted until those goals were attained, including new U.S. investments in South Africa and the importation of that country's agricultural products, coal, iron, uranium, textiles and military equipment. The clear intent was to give Pretoria a choice: either make major changes in a repugnant social policy or suffer painful economic consequences for not doing...