Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zinn, a noted social historian and author of A People's History of the United States, said the current economic boom America is enjoying is not benefiting the working poor...
Zinn also praised the students for their activism, saying their actions sent the message that they are aware of social injustice...
...Senate? And she would have to give it up. The people of this state would expect her to focus on the issues of concern to New York. They'd want to see her in every county, and they would want to hear her views on health care, education and Social Security reform but also the cost of air fares upstate, PCBs in the Hudson River, the aquifers in Nassau County and on and on. And though she wouldn't have to live in New York, she'd have to run a campaign in New York, which might be tough...
...Dartmouth College, I had been rejected by those vaunted sisterhoods in the first round of pledge-season cuts. Was it my clothes? Did I say something wrong? Now that I had officially been deemed an outcast like Hester Prynne, I sulked in my dorm room for days, convinced my social life was over before it had even begun...
...fraternities and sororities on campus. Despite angry alumni calls and sullen student protests--including the cancellation of all fraternity parties at the school's annual Winter Carnival--the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. Such news might not seem like a big deal at many colleges, but at Dartmouth, whose raucous frat life inspired the movie Animal House, it's the biggest drama since the 230-year-old school, tucked in an idyllic New Hampshire valley, went coed...