Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike E4D, the class gift is not meant to foster social reform, but to get graduates into the habit of sending a check to Harvard every now and then...
Unwilling to offend large, politically powerful constituencies, Bush refused to tax costly, non means-based entitlement programs like Social Security or Medicare for the wealthy or to put a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle class, such as mortgage interest deductions, and instead urged a dramatic cut in the tax rate on capital gains...
...around the world are making for ideals which we all too often take for granted, it would be a particular shame if, at this moment in history, America were to remain mired in a Reagan-like state of complacency and continued to ignore or sidestep many of its own social and economic ills. The United States is viewed as a symbol of democracy by struggling peoples around the world, yet it seems unable to provide the promise of freedom of opportunity to many of its own citizens...
...says a large part of the problem is that Harvard's social atmosphere is not designed for couples but rather for individuals. Sometimes single friends worry about asking her to go out with them because they know she is involved with Darby and will not be interested in looking for other men to date, Lee explains. "It's almost uncomfortable for a person to spend time with a couple, or part of a couple, because lots of times people go out to meet other people," Lee says...
...Bogdan says that social pressures are relaxed rather than exacerbated for her by dating Liles for so long. "The one thing about dating the same person for four years is that you don't have to find a date for any of the formals," Bogdan says...