Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be told that the best way to avoid AIDS is to refrain from sexual activity until as adults they are ready to establish a mutually faithful monogamous relationship." Responded Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California: "The Administration is confusing the handling of a public health epidemic with their social agenda...
...many tears are shed when Clifton Holt, artistic director of the National Ballet Company, is stabbed to death by a drug addict. His dancers had regarded him as a martinet, and his board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more senseless Manhattan murder takes an abrupt turn when the killer is himself killed in prison after bragging that he was paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company...
Labor Party Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock denounced Lawson's presentation as a "bribes budget," charging that the plan "has little to do with the general good and everything to do with the general election." Leaders of the Alliance, a union of the Social Democratic and Liberal parties, were no less critical. Said Social Democratic Leader Dr. David Owen: "The Chancellor talks a lot about prudence while handing out the goodies...
...problem, not the solution -- is losing force. Presidential candidates of both parties are struggling to define a new role for Government in the post-Reagan era. While seeing the need to be frugal, they are talking more and more about compassion, more active approaches to deep-rooted social problems, a new sense of community values. Reagan has done what he has done, and he has accomplished much. He presided over one of the longest periods of economic recovery in American history, a time attended by the end of inflation and of the wage-price spiral. He rolled back the writ...
...Eisenhower period," says UCLA Political Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander, "and we're moving into something not unlike the 1960s. The 'era of good feeling' that Reagan presided over is ending, and people are ready for the next cycle of history, for a new period of activism and social change." But as Alexander well knows, the future never merely recycles the past. The nation cannot return to federal taxing and spending on a Great Society scale. Most candidates in 1988 will focus wistfully on new ways to engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will...