Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that he expected there still would be floor fights over proposed Senate amendments to the bill, including one that would discourage the Department of Social Services from placing foster children with or allowing adoptions by gays and lesbians...
This is the Social Security crowd, whose imperturbable coin stuffing accounted in large part for 55% of Atlantic City's gaming win last year. From the street corners of New York City to the hamlets of Pennsylvania, these gamblers in thick-soled white sneakers begin their pilgrimages at dawn, first making their way to deserted parking lots or pick-up points, then wobbling up the bus steps, down the aisle and into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday...
...normally compare their lives with those of West Germans, but they are also well informed about events in the Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary. Their frustration has mounted as they watch those countries experimenting with glasnost and perestroika. But party chief Erich Honecker, 77, made it clear that such social and economic reforms will not be forthcoming. The authorities in East Berlin even took the unfraternal step of banning Soviet publications that carried "distorted portrayals of history...
...applications to fill 1,605 places in the class of '93, undoubtedly many of these would-be students (and their parents) were motivated by equally crass considerations. Popular wisdom asserts that getting a pedigree from an Ivy League school is worth more in terms of future income and social standing than attending any of several dozen other academically rigorous colleges and universities...
This is not to feign ignorance of how the world really works. An Ivy education generally does carry with it useful social networks, external prestige and the self-esteem that comes with winning the college-admissions version of the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. But these advantages tend to be small and transitory, especially when compared with the weight that anxious parents and students attribute to them. "For certain kinds of jobs, a Harvard degree might help you get a foot in the door," says economist Robert Klitgaard, the author of Choosing Elites. "But if you look at outcomes -- earnings...