Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost flawless public performance is all the more admirable for hiding his true nature: short-fused, outspoken, archconservative. As a senior British official who knows him well puts it, "He has all the prejudices of a white Englishman of his age and social standing." Notes a friend: "Denis calls a spade a bloody shovel, though these days he does it privately. It requires an almost superhuman effort for him to keep the old mouth shut in public. Loyalty to Margaret and common sense make...
Moreover, public health is damaged by the lack of trained medical detectives. M.E.s are usually the first to sound the alarm about faulty product design, new diseases or social problems like child abuse. Says Dr. Donald Reay, Seattle's chief medical examiner: "Look how much the public knows about cocaine and firearms. That's because people are dying from drugs and gunshots...
...other reason advanced by the presidents for dismantling the Contras so quickly is the destabilizing effect of the rebels inside the Honduran borders. This may be true, but a plan to reintegrate 50,000 Contra refugees into the Nicaraguan social and political mainstream within four months doesn't seem viable...
Since Myrdal, social scientists who study race relations have wrestled with the sometimes tenuous connection between expressed attitudes and personal behavior. As A Common Destiny puts it, "blacks and whites share a substantial consensus, in the abstract, on the broad goal of achieving an integrated and egalitarian society...
...surveys also show that whites are much more likely to support integration in theory than specific governmental steps to achieve it. A Common Destiny views discrepancies like these as "important signs of continuing resistance to full equality of black Americans: principles of equality are endorsed less when social contact is close, of long duration, or frequent." Put colloquially, the prevalent white attitude is "Yeah, I'm for integration, but not in my neighborhood...