Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of our own group among our closest friends. Whether Black or white, we all realize that race still matters in some intangible way, though its effects are real. The tensions evidence themselves in small ways--the perception by Blacks of insensitivity by whites, the assumption by whites of special consideration for Blacks...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
...Another decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...
...special report on the progress of the killer epidemic. New infections are down in gay communities but up dramatically among intravenous drug abusers and their sex partners...
...capital to a lack of personal discipline on the part of its 6.8 million inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act. Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks...