Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With all of the exaggerated, alarmist claims of rapid change overpowering our society, it is a pleasure to see controlled research on social change in the Middletown III study...
Marshall Loeb, eat your words, and if Martin Feldstein agrees, he may join you. I refer to "The Surest Social Security" [Oct. 23]: "it is now a good deal for beneficiaries because they paid in low taxes years ago and are now collecting hefty benefits." You do not consider the low salaries of the years in which many beneficiaries were contributing and the small benefits that resulted...
...great majority of his diocese would agree. A disarming man with a sense of humor and a head for figures, Topel soon proved himself a conservative administrator who delegated authority well and led the diocese into such forward-looking social projects as homes for unwed mothers and housing for the elderly. A notable achievement, the one he is most proud of, was the establishment of the Immaculate Heart Retreat House and a new kind of religious retreat involving private work with a spiritual director and, for the priests and lay Catholics who go there, a 30-day period of almost...
...prayer retreat "suddenly got the conviction that God wanted me to move into a smaller house. I wanted to live like the poor, and that's the way it's been ever since." He even manages to turn over to the needy some money from his Social Security check...
During her regime, the Panthers pursued a number of social enterprises that had been started under Newton. They founded and still operate the Oakland Community School, which provides high-level education to 150 ghetto kids. There was and is a program that helps old people to go out shopping and another that provides school lunches. One Panther program offers dances for teen-agers and training in martial arts. Says Oakland County Supervisor John George: "Huey could take street-gang types and give them a social consciousness...