Word: socialism
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...level the playing field on which U.S. and foreign exporters compete." Further, say advocates of subsidizing exports, the U.S. is merely doing what other nations do through a range of helpful export measures. True enough. But European companies traditionally shoulder higher taxes than American companies and help sustain elaborate social-welfare systems of the sort the U.S. has never seen. Some of them even operate under mandated employment levels. No American company puts up with that...
...Menlo Park, Calif. But staying within the letter of the law has not saved the scientists from attack. Biotechnology critic Jeremy Rifkin petitioned Congress last week to ban all privately funded research into embryonic stem cells so that there can be a "full investigation of the profound long-term social and ethical implications of the technology." Right-to-life activists chimed in as well. The stem cells were taken from potential human beings, says Judie Brown, president of the American Right to Life League. Asserts Brown: "These human beings should be protected...
Opened in 1983 by a British-born feminist theologian named Edwina Gately, Genesis House is one of just a handful of U.S. recovery centers for prostitutes. As social-service and law-enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain...
...around, more has proved to be less. "The whole modern movement started to provide graceful living for people no matter what their economic status," says architect Koenig, who built his first house in 1950 for $5,000. "It was not a style, not a passing fancy; it was a social movement...
RETIRING. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, 71, from his New York Senate seat; in 2000; after four terms. The scholar-legislator served under four Presidents and had a major influence on welfare, Social Security, tax, transit and health-care policy...