Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with Gorbachev, the Politburo members who received the widest support were Nikolai N. Slyunkov, chief of the party's commission on social and economic policy, with 19 votes opposed, and former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, with 13 opposed...
...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...
...strokes from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability to locate themselves morally or emotionally on a sturdy social ladder...
...most important, a decrease in the Soviet military presence -- whether in garrisons on the outskirts of East bloc capitals or over the horizon in the U.S.S.R. itself -- may induce those regimes to rely less on the threat of force and more on a genuine social compact between a government and its citizens...
Taxes on alcohol do not cover the social and economic costs of drinking, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article co-written by a Kennedy School of Government professor...