Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among those students throwing rocks at the police to protest the government of the late South Korean President Syngman Rhee. The tradition started 27 years ago has proved to be a healthy social phenomenon for the country. Every society needs a watchdog to keep an eye on the people who hold power. In the U.S. the Constitution satisfies that need at the spiritual level; the press does so at the functional level. In South Korea students have filled the vacuum and have become the watchdog group...
Along with this conservative trend, the 1980s has seen the emergence of an attitude which whispers in the ears of our nation's leaders and businessmen that "anything's okay as long as you can get away with it." This attitude, which pretends that the government and social standards exist only when they 're convenient, is the same attitude that has led to both the Iran-contra and the insider trading scandals. Shocked at such blatant disregard of the law and professional standards of conduct, some of the nation's more liberal educators, such as Bok, have apparently joined Bennett...
...these changes are not revolutionary, some may object, saying that a university should go no farther, that it is up to society to change its attitudes before universities can change them for society. But on closer inspection, it is clear that the university is one of the places where social standards and codes of human behavior can be transformed--whether for good or bad--as witnessed in the anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s...
Most adept footwork. Dukakis' response to a smart-alecky Buckley question about how much of Massachusetts' budget goes for defense: "None. But a lot of it goes into social services and education and economic development. And that's why today Massachusetts has the lowest unemployment rate of any industrial state...
...years the state of the marriage union in the U.S. has been widely proclaimed as dismal. Citing high divorce rates, preachers and social commentators have bemoaned the institution as virtually doomed unless American couples mend their fickle ways. To support their cries of alarm, they have often cited a commonly accepted statistic: one out of every two marriages ends in divorce...