Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People don't understand why so many women find themselves in this desperate plight," says Cynthia Marano, 31, director of the Baltimore center and coordinator of the alliance's newly formed successor, the Displaced Homemakers Network. She blames the whole spectrum of social change-ever-rising divorce rates, unemployment, inflation, longer life spans, stubborn sexism and ageism. One important new factor, she adds, is the no-fault divorce laws that have been adopted by 47 states. "They are basically beneficial to younger women, but leave older women without bargaining leverage and without enough to live on." All these...
...doesn't matter where women start out," says Charlotte Stewart, 49, coordinator of the Dallas-area centers. "After a divorce, they all end up in the same place. Down." Studies and statistics bear her out. The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research found that after divorce "the economic status of former husbands improves, while that of former wives deteriorates." Only 2% of all divorced women with children receive more than $5,000 a year in support. Only 14% of divorce settlements include any alimony, and only 44% award child support-but less than half of either...
...system of apartheid is morally acceptable. "The New Testament does not regard the diversity of peoples as such as something sinful," the policy statement says, and the teaching in Galatians 3: 28 that "there is neither Jew nor Greek" in Christ relates to overall spiritual unity, not "social integration...
...struck one or another of the companies each time around; early speculation is that this year its prime target will be GM. Main demands will be for inflation protection and a shorter work week, but the liberal union's stance could harden if Carter moves to cut social spending...
DIED. Harold D. Lasswell, 76, social scientist who applied the principles of psychology to the study of politics; in New York City. Having undergone psychoanalysis, Lasswell used Freudian insights to analyze the interplay of power and personality. A professor at the University of Chicago and later at Yale Law School, he wrote numerous books, including Politics: Who Gets What, When...