Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinated by your story "America's New Manners" and Social Arbiter Letitia Baldrige [Nov. 27]. After all, when all's said and done, it's really quite simple. Good manners are best defined by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...Democrats represent the largest left-leaning force in Canadian politics. Under their leadership, provincial governments have implemented social health and social auto insurance plans. NDP provincial governments have also demonstrated their willingness to increase social welfare spending, redistribute tax burdens and occasionally nationalize resource industries...
Just as Canadian workers are becoming more politically aware as economic problems increasingly plague Canadian society, Canada's students are showing more interest in promoting social and political change in their country. The recent upsurge in Canadian student activism creates a stark contrast to the relative complacency of their counterparts in the United States. The gradual radicalization of the students has played a crucial role in the left-wing politics of Canada, because students provide an important academic base for the working-class movement and help legitimize left-wing demands...
...each college or university around issues specific to that institution. For instance, one NUS researcher said, if the toilet paper issue currently inflaming Harvard students came up at a Canadian college, NUS field owrkers would organize protests but would also try to link up the issues with a greater social question like the reasonableness of demands for basic goods without being ripped off by store owners who inflate prices. In this way the NUS uses little issues to illuminate what it sees as inherent problems in an economy dominated by large private corporations...
...characteristics that have made American males obnoxious to others and dangerous to themselves, as benchmarks of self-esteem. If the authors really wish to support their claim, rather than assert it as dogma, perhaps studies of incidences of depression or of psychological profiles or even of degree of social interaction with the community would be far better to point...