Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this bill becomes law, the very concept of equality of opportunity will no longer exist in practice. Although Senator Nunn claims that the bill will "promote upward mobility," it is hard to see how it will serve to do anything but freeze people's current positions in the social structure...
...been created over decades cannot be undone in a day." Energizing an empire of 285 million people and turning it into a modern economy ranks among the most daunting tasks of modern times, as audacious as Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations or Franklin Roosevelt's creation of a new social welfare state...
...should be making sure that the racism and sexism here should not be tolerated. We have a chance to bring social responsibilities to Harvard by electing Bishop [Desmond M.] Tutu [to the Board of Overseers]," said Domenic M. Bozzotto, who heads Local 26, the Harvard dining hall workers' union...
...whole movement of these recent decades has been to make the [faculty] community more responsive to student needs," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. "That was expedited by the events...
...first time that town and gown ever came together on issues," recalls City Councillor Saundra Graham, at the time a community activist in the Peace and Freedom Party. "We just felt that [Harvard students] were all these rich, white students who didn't care about social issues...