Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That, in fact, is the secret behind Pourquoi Pas!'s success; the central characters are not free-floating gonads but human beings whose sexuality reflects their emotional needs. Although the film deals with people outside the established social order, they are not refugees from a doctoral dissertation on nuts and sluts. Serreau never allows Pourquoi Pas! to dissolve into a lecture-diatribe on the joys of alternative lifestyles or role reversals...
...record. "We have not been at war; he has had some foreign policy success," says Kennedy. But he returns to the economy as the issue on which he will focus: "Our economic vitality is crucial to the politics of this nation. A strong economy is the best social program we can have. And these economic issues affect the confidence the people have in all our institutions...
...Says he: "Labels don't mean much any more. I introduced the airline deregulation bill with Jim Buckley, who was then one of the most conservative members of the Senate. I don't disagree much with Carter's spending levels. I wanted $4 billion more for social programs and that's in a budget of $580 billion...
...Jensen says, are evading the issue that all attempts to make the tests fairer have failed to raise blacks' scores. His conclusion: "None of these attempts to create highly culture-reduced tests has succeeded in eliminating, or even appreciably reducing the mean differences between certain subpopulations-races and social classes-in the United States...
...unfunded pension obligations that it would leave be hind could exhaust the private-pension rescue fund that the Government maintains. Before long, the combined pressures of inflation and the changing U.S. demographics will force the problem of supporting the retired into the forefront of the nation's social concerns...