Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Darman takes such pride in a pact unfamiliar to nearly all ordinary mortals -- rather than megadeals like the 1983 Social Security rescue or the 1986 tax-reform act -- shows still another of his several facets. He is a relentless future freak. In a town obsessed with the crisis du jour, he frequently peers at the far horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle...
...starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
...sell insurance one policy at a time when we require everyone, by law, to have it? Imagine the added cost if we had to sell Social Security insurance one policy at a time. Or if we outlawed the sale of group health insurance. Or if we required everyone to contribute to the defense budget -- as in effect we do -- and then created a special sales force to sign everybody...
...movement began with Congress, which started in 1982 to clamp down on one of the country's biggest tax dodges: the failure to report billions of dollars in tips. Laws now require restaurateurs to monitor waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...growing up in an unstructured home environment, they do not develop a sense of time that enables them to adapt well to school. "When they come to school, these children enter a world that was not created for them," says Norton, who teaches at the university's School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language, yet you are unable to interpret what they want you to do, even though you wish to please them." Not understanding the meaning of time, she asserts, is a handicap that may partly account for the poor...