Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official Xinhua News Agency said today's People's Daily newspaper contained a commentary that warned, "Social turmoil can only do good to an extremely small number of people with ulterior motives...
...white American who avoids Harlem missing something? Yes: for starters, a poignant and profound social textbook lying open for study in the heart of a great city. One gazes at block after block of abandoned brownstones -- their fronts corked by arson, their doorways cemented shut, their empty windows gaping like a skeleton's eye sockets -- and realizes that agonizing irony is Harlem's chief industry. Perhaps, then, the European tourists are seeing things. Yes, they are: spectacular things. Any tour of Harlem compresses into a few square miles the melodramatic contradictions of urban life. Horror dwells in the basement...
TSONGAS sees two reasons why the state's voters will rally around a budget entitlement for public education. Some will respond from a commitment to social justice, equal opportunity, and the need for a enlightened society. Tsongas says that while he supports this perspective, "it only reaches 50 percent of the voters...
Another objection to setting aside a specific portion of the state budget for education is that such a step might set off a general melee among government social programs to stake out their own funding claims...
...fears that giving education entitlement status would prompt a squabble over funding levels for social programs seem unfounded, since the state already guarantees spending levels for important programs such as Social Security and veterans benefits...