Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approved, its supporters will probably have to agree to increased defense outlays of as much as $7 billion. The recession may trigger further spending; a jump of 2% in the unemployment rate could add $40 billion to the deficit because of lower tax revenues and higher spending on social programs. If there is a tax cut to combat the recession, that alone could push the deficit for fiscal 1980 to $50 billion or $60 billion...
...other members of the junta, Violetta and Joaquin Chamarro, are the children of the President who fell from power shortly before Anastasio Somoza's Debayle's father made his meteoric rise. But poetic justice will not sustain their newgovernment. If they succeed in their dream of becoming a social democracy, the U.S. will find it must account for its dealings there in the future. If not, the coalition could dissolve into another civil...
...author's ideas on replica and originals. Structural purists may find her infusions of poetry unwiedly and unnecessary. Frame herself simply calls the book an entertainment. It is that and more, for she proves to be not only spinner of bizarre and hunting fantasy but a sharp social observer as well. Her descriptions of New Zealand suburbanization, of California as public confessional booth, of television and religious fakers convey a reality as urgent as Alice Thumb's creativeschizophrenia. -R.Z. Sheppard...
Perceived in that manner, the new pessimism seems only the old optimism turned upside down. Surely a better way to explain the neoconservatives' views is not to deal with their motives but to measure their reasons for turning right against the political and social reality that Americans have been confronting for the past 15 years. Steinfels' provocative volume might have been better served by getting down to more tough cases. He repeatedly reprimands his subjects for not blaming society's weaknesses (self-indulgence and galloping consumerism, for instance) on the free-enterprise system. He might have pursued...
...reforms; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tugwell was a professor at Columbia University when recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt in 1941, Tugwell continued his crusades for social reform and the equitable distribution of wealth. Upon resigning five years later, he resumed his academic pursuits, laboring...