Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laced with heavy sodium from the coolant of a nearby nuclear power plant. Whodunit? Not, it turns out, the National Institutes of Health or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The villains are a couple of doctors, both known to Tom, who have contrived on their own to salvage the "American social fabric" by doping the local populace...
...while More is trying to pull the plug on the doctored water, he must also ponder a vexing question. What is wrong, after all, with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than when he treated them for the normal run of human miseries? A mastermind of the sodium conspiracy taunts him, "You can't give me one good reason why what I am doing is wrong...
...state money to operate it. "So much of our economy has been artificial," says City Councilwoman Diane Carpenter, speaking of a generation of pork-barrel construction projects expensively built on pilings above the shifting permafrost. "Now that there are no jobs for young people, there will be social dislocation, anger and bitterness...
Nicaragua's comandantes believe the army can readily handle the military threat posed by the contras. "We expect we will have mercenaries in Nicaragua for a long time, but we have made many advances in cutting their social base," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra recently told TIME. "They are now a weakened, reduced force." The President's younger brother, General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, the Defense Minister and an increasingly visible member of the Sandinista directorate, concurs. Of last week's attack in Managua, he says, "They have moved to this kind of activity because they have no political program. But this...
...tactics to countervail its naked sword of war. It is a sheer farce." Says Vicvic Justiniani, the national spokeswoman for MAKIBAKA, a women's organization that is part of the N.D.F.: "Our view of what constitutes peace is not the same as Cory's. Peace can only come with social justice. So it is a question of whose ideas prevail, ours or hers...