Word: socials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being that if we can just take big money and special interests out of the picture, we'll return the government to the people. They say special interests have crippled Congress, rendering it unable to make the improvements the public demands in such areas as health care, education and Social Security. The tack appears to be working as polls show both candidate's popularity on the rise in New Hampshire...
...Enlightenment from Montaigne to Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Lessing and Lichtenberg to introduce a flicker of reason into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress at all costs...
...women's initiative starts today and runs through Friday. It includes an "Eat-In" in front of the Science Center on Thursday sponsored by Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach, and a holiday reception with the Seneca, an all-women social group founded last year, on the MAC quad Friday afternoon...
Prosecutors said Meinert illegally financed a spring break trip to Europe by using a friend's social security number to obtain a loan...
Critics say the ADHD "epidemic" - which, depending on who's giving the diagnosis, can cover nearly any child who's ever nodded off in class or can't stand waiting in lines - is merely a social byproduct of modernity: Children raised on cable television and video games have short attention spans. But by siding with medicine as the treatment of choice, the NIMH says that there's a clear biological component that can be chemically modified. That's not to say that every time a kid acts up we should drug him. "This is not just handing out Ritalin...