Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although the goals and positions of the new traditionally Jewish organization are to some extent questionable, his argument showed little appreciation for the need for a new breed of social organization. Students are attempting to broaden the organized social life of a University whose present system caters almost exclusively to prep-school WASPs and old-boy legacies...
What can a hate group do to clean up its dirty image? The Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds...
...buyers of state paper, thus absorbing the burgeoning debt. In this situation, rises in interest rates have the perverse effect of stimulating consumption by putting more money into people's pockets. Moreover, another part of the government's deficit spending directly helps private business by shouldering part of employers' social-security contributions, thus boosting profits and encouraging investment...
While good jobs are not hard to come by in the Federal Republic, where skilled labor is in short supply, good housing is another matter. Unlike many of their fellow refugees, the Breites again got lucky. Through a Catholic social-welfare organization, they were able to rent a five-room furnished bungalow on a tree-lined street. "We expected a small apartment, not this," says a delighted Marlies...
...fact, 25 Harvard men revived Sigma Alpha Mu on this campus because they had not found a better way to fulfill that need, then we, sadly, must at least be partly to blame. Ethan A. Budin '90 Jack S. Levy '92 Co-Chairs, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Social Committee