Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1920s the Soviet leadership talked of engaging in social engineering through education and propaganda to transform its feudal subjects into enlightened socialists -- a "Homo sovieticus" who would be compassionate and informed. Instead, these regimes found it easier to control their citizens by reinforcing their worst instincts, most of which derived from peasant attitudes...
Moody, who joined TIME as a correspondent in Bonn in 1982, is no stranger to social unrest. As TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1983 to 1985, he covered protests by the then illegal Solidarity union. Says Moody: "The riot police in Poland, the ZOMO, can be tough, but at least both they and the demonstrators knew they were Poles, fellow countrymen. In Panama I sense an alienation between the police and the people that may take a long while to overcome...
Cheap rent, warm sun and clean air are just some of Quartzsite's attractions. Winter residents also enjoy an easy and active social life: evening bonfires, potluck dinners, dirt biking, rock hounding, panning for gold (and finding it), plus more dances than you'd find in a teenager's calendar. In February Quartzsite plays host to the largest gem and mineral exhibition in the country. And there's an abundance of flea markets, where a person can buy, among other things, crocheted cowboy hats, petrified dinosaur manure, pet ID tags, Whitt's "hillbilly" billfold and racoon-penis earrings...
...expected by 1991. For an annual price tag of $17,000 (for boarders), Japanese parents can rest assured that their children will get a typical 35-hour-a-week Japanese high school curriculum, including five classes each of English, math and Japanese and four of science and social studies. American students are welcome, but most of the classes will be taught in Japanese. Language was still a bit of a problem for T.M.G. tenth-grader Junich Hasebe, 15, who nonetheless seemed eager to learn about his host country. "I like America very much," he said in halting English. "Large country...
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. That's where the problem is. Are you going to build a city to accommodate more black people? Why? They don't pay taxes. Are you going to build a school system to accommodate the children of poor black people? Why? They'll want your job. They don't pay taxes...