Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them is by Paul Dickson, 39, a founder of the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law, which is actually a filing box in which he has collected all the useful social axioms he could find−and some useless ones as well. He has published them in The Official Rules (Delacorte...
...officials were not unhappy with Bazargan's choices, even though little is known about the political and social views of some of the men identified as Khomeini aides. Many Iranians, however, felt that it was a lackluster crew, as did some foreign diplomats. "Bazargan told us last week not to expect too much," said one, "and he turned out to be right." The most notable voices of dissatisfaction were heard at Tehran University, where radical students are in no mood for any kind of conservatism. "I'm not happy with Bazargan's government," said Mariam Naza-rour...
Violence has been intensified by social tensions arising from the economic crisis. Turkey never recovered from the oil price hikes of 1973-74; it has teetered on the edge of bankruptcy since. Turkey has run out of foreign exchange, and its foreign debt has tripled since 1970, to $12 billion. The government says the annual inflation rate is 42%, but independent estimates put it closer to 60%. An industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish...
Since no party in parliament commands a solid majority, many politicians believe the only hope for a strong government that could impose national belt-tightening lies in a grand coalition between the two biggest political groups: Ecevit's social-democratic Republican People's Party and the main opposition, former Premier Suleyman Demirel's conservative Justice Party. In response to public outrage over the Ipekçj assassinations last week, there were some signs of renewed political moves toward such a government of national unity, even though Ecevit and Demirel are notorious personal antagonists...
Callaghan's new concordat replaces the three-year-old so-called social contract under which the T.U.C. had agreed to temper wage demands to tamp down Britain's virulent inflation. Now that the rate has been hammered down to about 9%, a third of what it was in 1975, the restless unions are less inclined to show restraint. And indeed, instead of a firm wage lid, Callaghan's new pact contains only some vague appeals...