Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vanities," is about to enter its 27th week on the bestseller list. The novel, Wolfe's first, exposes the shallow values of a New York bond broker--and may have particular relevance to the lives of graduating seniors, said Schwalbe. The novel "talks to the conflict between social conflict and yuppie careers," she said...
...pass an exhaustive background check, which slows down the process of bringing teachers to the prison. "I think they just don't want 20 people coming here. [Bureaucratic red tape] is the greatest ammunition they can throw at you," says Deer Island case manager Dan O'Connell, a social worker employed by the prison...
Some tutors say they view the program's socializing function as more important than the academic instruction. At times, however, the two become virtually indistinguishable. Freed recalls one Monday when he and an inmate were reviewing the social studies segment of a GED exam. "He couldn't find America on the map. We put aside the book and just talked about the basic principles this country was founded on," Freed recalls. "These were new ideas to him, and finally he said, `Wow, this is really neat...
...outflow led some tribes to fear for their cultural survival. Studies conducted in 1969 and 1974 found that between 25% and 35% of American Indian children were placed in institutions or in adoptive or foster care, mostly in non-Indian households. It was not unheard of for social workers to take children away from their parents "simply because their homes had no indoor plumbing," says David Getches, an expert on Indian law at the University of Colorado. Because it has discouraged such abuses and kept more Indian families together, says Getches, the legislation is a "success story...
...practice. Says Dr. John Willke of the National Right to Life Committee: "Fetal reduction is the thinly veiled killing of unwanted babies." But both Wapner and Dr. Richard Berkowitz, head of the Mt. Sinai team, insist that the vast majority of patients come to them for medical reasons, not social ones...