Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During your campaign, you promised not only no new taxes but also to protect Social Security, major weapons programs, farm subsidies. If you don't break the tax promise, do you feel you may have to give a little on some of those programs...
...things like means testing of Social Security benefits for wealthy people might...
Many blacks charge that the city goes out of its way to provide housing, jobs and social services for the Hispanic immigrants, while ignoring the needs of the black citizenry. "The Nicaraguans get food, they get clothing," says Vanessa Haynes, 34, a black data-entry officer at the University of Miami. "What do our people get? Nothing...
...only a modernist reading of the artist's role makes it seem contradictory that Goya was both a court artist and an inspired, tragic social critic. Efforts to see him in pop-Marxist terms as "an artist of the people" miss the point. Goya had many disillusioned moments, and by the last years of his life, when -- sick and old and bitterly disappointed by the betrayal of the liberal Spanish constitution at the hands of that squat reactionary King, Fernando VII -- he moved to France, they became a continuous pessimism. He never idealized the Spanish proletariat: it was el populacho...
Boskin's most controversial policy preference is reflected in his call for changes in programs that in some cases amount to handouts for the well-off, including Social Security and agricultural subsidies. In his 1987 book, Reagan and the Economy, Boskin wrote, "Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded." But he realizes that middle-class entitlement programs are political nitroglycerin, and he has no intention of embarrassing Bush by launching a public crusade...