Word: social
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...millennial myself, I'm disappointed how frequently I hear of "the youth" wasting their days in front of social-networking sites or hanging onto their phones. Few people ever consider the interconnected and networked mass we represent. While we may never be able to help stop an unjust war like our parents did before us, the overwhelming role the youth played in electing a candidate as revolutionary as President Obama is indicative of how powerful we have become. We are the politicians, the journalists and the soldiers of the future but we have already begun to play our role. Luke...
...story they sold us anyway. Where is the E.U. now that the Greeks need it? Where are our European fellow men and women, at a time when the oldest nation and culture of the continent needs them most, in order to face down the serious financial and social crisis they are undergoing? Georgios N. Diamantis, BARCELONA, SPAIN...
...also that it's a different time? Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. One of the reasons he went to the United States was that it there was a dictatorship in Greece...
...sometimes people also have unrealistic expectations of what their state or their democracy can provide. The Greeks of today or tomorrow, can they expect the same social support, the same social welfare state that the generations before them expected? Or are Greeks going to have to recalibrate their expectations? We want to make sure the social system survives. We have to become competitive. Greece also has both negatives, but also a positive on this because our social system is not well organized, there's a lot of waste. So in cutting down the waste, I think we can modernize...
...without controversy. The Civil Rights Act resulted in brawls on the Senate floor and death threats against a number of Senators, including Robert F. Kennedy. The 1965 creation of Medicare and Medicaid tied up courts for decades with legal challenges from states. And Republicans called for the repeal of Social Security from its inception in 1935 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt until Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration of a cease-fire in the 1950s...