Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Trying to Slow Social Security" [Jan. 22], you suggest phasing out benefits paid to spouses who "do not work" because such payments are expensive and "discriminate against working women." I'd like to know what a wife who works for years at hard labor-cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, being nurse, adviser, chauffeur and mainstay of a home-does if she does not work. I would say that this kind of working woman deserves all she gets from her husband's share of Social Security...
...failed to overturn the conviction of Patty Hearst for armed robbery, her lawyers and friends mounted a campaign to persuade President Carter to commute her sentence. They argued that Patty had suffered enough and indeed had been treated with special severity by the law because of the wealth and social prominence of her family. Thousands of calls and letters poured into the White House urging her release...
Barbara and Gordon Ray, of Madison, Wis., want to adopt a child. They thought this would not be too difficult. Their doctors had told them it was very unlikely they could have a child of their own. When the two 28-year-olds applied to the state Health and Social Services Department, Mrs. Ray, who is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighed 210 Ibs., was told she had to lose weight. Her obesity was a health problem, explained the state physician who examined her. Mr. Ray, a shipping and mail clerk at the University of Wisconsin...
...lost 20 Ibs. in three months. That was still not enough, the department said, and suggested she take off an additional 20 Ibs. Infuriated, the Rays made their problem public. State Senator Peter Bear openly criticized the department's ruling, and the state legislature decided to investigate. Finally, Social Services officials relented and suspended the informal guidelines on obesity...
Despite its harshness in suppressing dissent, the Bakr government appears to be popular with most Iraqis. Education and medical care are free to all, and most of the population has shared in the present prosperity. Of all the recent social changes, none is more remarkable than the liberation of Iraqi women. Today they constitute one-third of the country's professional class and 26% of its industrial work force. Unlike their sisters in many other Arab states, they can own land, inherit property and, if divorced, receive alimony...