Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Talbott, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland and co-author of a study commissioned by the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) that will be released next week. Says Talbott: "There is no such thing as recreational drug use or a social drink for someone with a severe psychiatric illness...
...President Bok would be the first to admit, affirmative action is a policy that Harvard must be committed to following. By increasing the number of foreign students here, Harvard would be announcing that it believed an international presence to be of greater social importance than rectifying the condition of those groups which have long been underpriveleged or discriminated against. Such a step now, when admissions officials across the country admit that attracting qualified Black and Hispanic students is becoming more and more difficult, would send the wrong signal to these minorities and to the American higher education community, of which...
Despite some opposition to his authoritarian regime, Chiang remains personally popular, even among the 80% of the country's population that is Taiwanese. Indeed, the social stability resulting from martial law may have contributed to the country's impressive economic performance. An island of farmers with no major exports in 1949, Taiwan is now the world's 15th largest trading nation, manufacturing industrial products ranging from microchips to machine tools...
...about his ambition to be Governor of Massachusetts. Small wonder that as a young lawyer he plunged into Brookline politics with a vengeance, engineering a good-government takeover of the town Democratic committee and then building an organization to expand the fight statewide. There was a strong element of social class to the struggle: well- educated reformers rebelling against old-line Irish ethnic politics. Elected to the state legislature in 1962, Dukakis radiated disdain for backslapping and favor trading while zealously championing causes like no- fault auto insurance...
This new outlook, Gorbachev argues, is required in an atomic age. "Nuclear deterrence demands the development of new approaches, methods and forms of relations between different social systems, states and regions," he told the Communist Party Congress last year. "It is vital that all should feel equally secure." Says Professor Robert Legvold, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University: "This is a historic juncture. Gorbachev is the first Soviet leader to link national security to mutual security, to argue that the U.S.S.R. cannot achieve security at the expense of its main rival...