Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parsons acted from what he regarded as the most ideal and imperative motives of national duty," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus David Riesman '31, a colleague of Parsons. While he said he was not aware of the accusations against Parsons, he added that the reported actions did not surprise him in light of the sociologist's staunch anti-communism...
...bouncer Lefty Liton (Dean Shapiro '91) plays a Communist whose character is well-suited to the Pudding clientele, even though his delivery may be lacking. Instead of hawking the Worker's Vanguard, he proffers "Uprise and Shine, the official journal of the social climbers' party...
According to Linda A. DiMeglio '90, director of delegate services, the conference is comprised of 18 committees divided into three categories: the general assembly, the economic and social council and the specialized agencies--which include the Security Council, the Court of Justice and the International Atomic Agency...
...strategy is a $136 billion pool of popular programs like Amtrak, environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team is not going to squander political capital on such a fool's errand; that messy...
...announcement shocked friends and reporters, who describe Kitty as a social drinker who enjoyed a glass of wine with dinner. But the news came as no surprise to drug-abuse experts. Kitty, 52, had confessed early in the campaign to a 26-year addiction to amphetamine diet pills, a reliance she had overcome in 1982. Increasingly, counselors recognize that dependence on one substance increases the risk of abusing others...