Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social mores. Removing the legal strictures could make drug use socially acceptable...
...that would vastly increase the number of addicts and turn the U.S. into a "society of zombies," in the words of New York Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato. If drugs were freely available, what is now a nagging but contained problem could end up tearing apart the nation's social fabric...
...insatiable as their addictions deepened? Or would there be some kind of so-many-grams-per- customer limit? If so, again, how would it be enforced? As long as these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered, says Rangel sarcastically, legalization will remain "idle chitchat as cocktail glasses knock together at social events...
More than a half-century later, Conley is president of the club. But the hub of cultural and social activity that flourished in 1922 has only 40 members left. It leases space to help pay expenses. Conley, who at 74 is one of the younger members, realizes that an era has passed. "It's not that the women have changed," she says. "There's still a need for contact with people. It's the life-style that's changed...
...fact, correcting for inflation, real wage increases may have been growing. My point, though, is that Harvard's anti-union crusaders engaged in an obvious attempt to distort the figures they chose to use. I have worked as an economics journalist, have edited tests in statistics and social sciences, and have taught graphing in math classes; I can't recall ever having seen a chronologically backward graph before--and certainly not one which was also titled chronologically forward...