Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congratulations for gaining tenure in the Government Department. So too do the Government Department and President Bok, whose decisions made Sandel the first junior faculty member to receive tenure in the Government Department in a decade and one of a handful of junior faculty members in the humanities and social sciences to garner a permanent post during the same period...
...thus win the approval of his department--is indicative of his unusual talent. It also reflects, however, the barriers which junior faculty members outside the hard sciences face. Although scholars of the hard sciences may establish their reputations while young through stellar empirical work, in the more subjective social sciences and humanities, esteem is won much more slowly...
...year in pension payments. But Hurry, 72, worries about being wiped out financially if he has to enter a nursing home. He repents his vote for Reagan because "ten years ago, I thought I was pretty well off for a poor man. Now they're talking about taxing Social Security and taking away medical benefits...
...movements. Already the country is bristling with talk of total revolution from the bottom up. Aristide and his supporters say they are actually a modifying influence and favor only "active nonviolence." The priest's political and religious philosophy is a homegrown variant of liberation theology, which advocates grass-roots social reform and a "people's church," with a lesser role for the ecclesiastical hierarchy...
Peter Peterson, thinking the politically unthinkable, urges taxes on Social Security and cuts in Medicare for the well- off elderly in order to invest in America' s youth...