Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesmen are counting on Jonathan Myers, a North Cambridge social worker, to win a fifth seat for the organization in a three-way neighborhood rivalry with Cyr and Danehy. Independents discount Myers' chances, saying that his unusually dogged campaigning cannot compete with the ties of family and friends that both Cyr and Danehy boast...
...speech, which is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the Institute of Politics, Peres probably will concentrate on the possibilities of an international peace conference, which would include the Soviet Union and Palestinian representatives, and its implications for the region, said Martin Peretz, a lecturer in Social Studies who arranged Peres's K-School visit...
...than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...
...Corp. last year, he said he was leaving to "explore other endeavors." So what has the former disk jockey and transcendental- meditation instructor come up with for an encore? Opening a delicatessen only a matzoh ball's throw from Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. "I see it as a social service," says Brooklyn-born Kapor. "The deli is for anyone who complains about not being able to find a decent pastrami sandwich in Boston...
...controversial in his concepts, will begin three days of intensive grilling by the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading of the Constitution so constricted as to threaten basic principles of social justice and individual liberties that the nation now takes...