Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jaruzelski was replaced by outgoing Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who was elected by a Central Committee secret ballot, 171 to 41. In his acceptance speech, Rakowski proposed an unspecified reshuffling of the party's top leadership and declared, "I believe I will have the support of all party members who drew conclusions from the failure of the last elections. I would like to change this unfavorable situation into a favorable...
...encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans for day- care enrichment," she muses, "could roam the neighborhoods as the ice- cream man did in my childhood...
White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice...
Only in terms of the voting booth and the lunch-counter stool is there much truth to support this common white view. As A Common Destiny makes clear, "a considerable amount of remaining black-white inequality is due to continuing discriminatory treatment of blacks. The clearest evidence is in housing...
...surveys also show that whites are much more likely to support integration in theory than specific governmental steps to achieve it. A Common Destiny views discrepancies like these as "important signs of continuing resistance to full equality of black Americans: principles of equality are endorsed less when social contact is close, of long duration, or frequent." Put colloquially, the prevalent white attitude is "Yeah, I'm for integration, but not in my neighborhood...