Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political and social questions, 51 percent said they favored keeping abortion legal in all circumstances and 38 percent in some circumstances while 7 percent were opposed to abortion for any reason...
...describing a social contract, abhorrent to an American but understandable, even comforting, to many Chinese. In exchange for letting the rulers rule, the subjects will be permitted by the regime to continue the economic progress they have enjoyed for ten years...
...last week, some of the 63 on board felt a strange reversal of the jet engines. There was a skid and an impact that, though it left two dead and 45 injured, did not feel especially severe. A greater shock awaited at the bottom of the escape slide. Said social worker Larry Martin of Brooklyn: "When we got off, we were in the water." Passengers who could not swim held on to driftwood or each other, while many clambered on to the aircraft's broken fuselage until rescue boats arrived...
...male social club located at 45 Mt. Auburn St., cut off from Harvard in the summer of 1984, faces a costly civil suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court last August charging it with negligence...
President Bush's recent call for an escalation in the War on Drugs demands serious debate among the American public on how best to deal with this devastating social problem. While Seth Gitell is right to support greater Harvard participation in this debate ("Joining the War on Drugs," September 26), most of his concrete suggestions are worse than useless, offering more of the same flawed drug policies the nation has pursued unsuccessfully for decades...