Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iran-contra debacle in 1986, Ronald Reagan steered deliberately to the center, hoping to end his presidency on a good note. He made sure to pass a couple of solidly popular domestic measures with bipartisan support. For Clinton, that could be rewriting the managed-care files and saving Social Security from bankruptcy. Overseas he needs one clear win. Reagan had a Soviet arms-control deal; Clinton could try for progress in the Middle East peace talks...
...course, a nation's opinions about adultery may be affected by its familiarity with the practice. America is not yet France, but neither is it Monogamydonia nor Nosleazysexistan. According to the 1994 University of Chicago study titled The Social Organization of Sexuality, which is generally considered the most accurate report on Americans' sexual practices to date (this is the report that famously announced that Americans are having less sex and with fewer partners than our popular culture would have us believe), as many as a quarter of married men may have been unfaithful. This number dovetails intriguingly with the TIME/CNN...
...done several studies on lying in everyday life, notes that no one is totally honest all the time. "The tendency to tell lies," as Jean Piaget wrote in 1932, "is a natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow. Facility breeds falsity. In the end, Presidents lie for the same...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Fortune Investor Data Not to mention a return to the days of brinksmanship and bomb shelters. "Traders look at Russia, and they see Indonesia with nukes," says Baumohl. "The same failing economy, the same social unrest. But with Russia, there's that spectre that if the wrong people come to power, we've got the Cold War all over again." Baumohl looks at Viktor Chernomyrdin's return to the Kremlin as a "soft coup" -- but what comes next could be very, very hard...
...victims? families. The attacks started in 1978 and ended with Ted's capture in 1996, but not before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss of a loved one," said David Kaczynski, 47, who works as a social worker in an Albany NY youth shelter, in an interview with...