Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When asked if they had heard of a case of sexual harassment in a department other than their own, three out of every five women non-Government social science concentrators who had heard of such a case listed the Government Department first...
...Clerical and Technical workers' union, throwing the University's legal resources into a court battle--in which Harvard's case was thrown out, and the University was chastised by the judge for frivolous legal maneuvers. How long will the University's resources continue to be devoted to opposing social justice...
...movement of alumni/ae to elect progressive, pro-divestment overseers. We see hope in the continuing student movements for divestment, to support union workers, against Central American intervention, for women's, minority and gay and lesbian rights. We know that without these movements--if we had to trust to the social conscience and tender mercies of the Harvard Corporation and administration--the outlook would be grim indeed. We are proud of our history, proud of those who continue the battle for social justice and hopeful for change at Harvard and in the world. Is it too much to hope, as Bishop...
Among the items approved were: $192 million in Medicaid reimbursements, $18.8 million for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, $14.3 million for welfare relief funds and $12.3 million for Department of Social Services programs for children...
...change has its price, though. Gaping cracks have opened in the wall of social "order" that once comforted the Russian psyche and justified Soviet ideology. Organized crime is so active that Mafia has become commonplace in Russian patois. The homeless are more obvious too, including provincials who have traveled to Moscow to buy or trade for food and must spend the night huddled in drafty railway stations. Elsewhere, gaudy hookers and teenage toughs prowl pedestrian tunnels, and beggars -- old women, mostly -- hold out quavering hands for kopecks. Black marketeers hustle even in Red Square, and on a green fence near...