Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Society and devotes many hours each week to fund raising from private as well as public sources. The cost for each teenager is about $1,500 a year, and the paid staff members are all indigenous to the community. "Most adolescent pregnancy programs are headed by white female social workers," says Cary Dixon, a 48-year-old black man who teaches the family-life course to boys at the Frederick Douglass housing project...
...Kohl government could survive next year's elections if it is associated with a decision to deploy a new generation of short-range nuclear systems," observed a senior British official. And Kohl would probably likely be succeeded by an even stronger antinuclear government led by left-of-center Social Democrats and Greens...
...movie Major League takes this idea--baseball as a sport of social control--to an extreme, depicting a manipulative, capitalist club owner's battle to subjugate the players that she considers mere commodities...
Faced with so much adversity and so much social control, the players rely on the only thing they can be sure of: their skills as baseball players...
Baseball's social control cannot diffuse the individual achievements on the diamond. With each hit, catch, throw and pitch, the players regain their humanity...