Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blood-soaked leadership of the crime family based in the western town of Corleone -- and through it, of Sicily's criminal kingdom -- had finally repelled a country that romanticized and at times even sympathized with the so-called men of honor. Says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist and author of two books on the Mafia: "Every time he had to make a choice between convincing and killing someone, he chose to kill...
...extremist organizations throughout the country. Membership of radical groups has grown to 40,000 nationwide, up 25% since 1990, and three-quarters of those are considered ready to commit violent acts. No sign has been more frightening, though, than the crowds that have cheered on the rioting hooligans. Says sociologist Wolf Lepenies: "I'm not at all surprised that 100 or 200 would attack an asylum house. I'm more worried about the passive...
...sometimes also projected the fantasy that he had seen the horrors of combat. Clinton was not born until a year after Japan surrendered. "World War II is as far away from Bill Clinton's generation as World War I was for George Bush's generation," observes Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University. "What is happening is that the first half of this century is receding in our institutional memory...
...World War II generation walked the corridors of power. "Instead of being able to feel like we're still kids and having to look up at the generation running things, suddenly there's a guy your age who is President of the United States," says Paul Hirsch, a sociologist at Northwestern University. "This is the first time that the country has symbolically acknowledged that we baby boomers have it all figured...
...combining earned-income tax credit and measures to promote, or at least not penalize, savings -- would cost more, no question. Yet there is good reason to think that Americans, who are skeptical of handouts, will shell out more if it will be spent in ways they approve of. As sociologist Christopher Jencks writes, "Americans love to help people who are trying to help themselves." Is this liberal? Conservative? Both...