Word: stanleys
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Reader Torey Stanley of Oneida, Tenn., calls Social Security "truly a farce" [Nov. 28] and reports that he was denied benefits after an accident at age 22 because he "had not worked the past five out of twelve years." A wage earner disabled at 22 who meets all other requirements needs as few as six calendar quarter-years of work out of the past twelve to be insured, not five years...
...Stanley B. Stefan Warren, Mich...
...Stanley Cook...
...interpretation, widespread in Germany, blames the isolation, extreme leftism and us-them mentality of the country's universities for at least the climate in which the terrorism developed. At the universities, says Stanley Rothman, a political scientist at Smith College, leftists took charge so effectively in the late '60s that they created "a tight little world, remote from the increasing disapproval of the society, where the students were able to act out their fantasies." Although radical leftists remain a minority (perhaps 20%) among student and faculty, they exercise disproportionate control because of their activism. A much larger segment...
Moore concedes that the Carter team initially underestimated the importance of congressional relations. But, he insisted to TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "people around here are more and more aware that a big part of the game in this town is on the Hill." Besides, Moore argues, some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything...