Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West's Big Four join forces at "somewhat of a social affair...
...island by Anne-Aymone, Giscard's wife. In the evenings, the women joined their spouses for dinner; the first night's menu included a local fish, cheese and French champagne. With the four First Ladies present, the summit was indeed, as Carter had predicted, "somewhat of a social affair...
This means a pinch for domestic social programs. Democratic liberals, urban state Governors, big city mayors, many labor chieftains and black leaders all think that their constituencies are bearing an unfair share of the new frugality. They have powerful allies in Washington: the Cabinet members and other high-level bureaucrats who oversee domestic social-welfare programs. These men and women, in turn, have both public and back-door ties to influential members of Congress...
...crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries." -Zbigniew Brzezinski...
...Glimp was up against social and political unrest. In 1979, he's up against a more mundane problem: inflation, and the University's efforts to maintain a strong endowment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and to keep soaring tuition rates from putting a Harvard education out of reach of any but those with good scholarships or wealthy families...