Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans are now defensively aware of their history: they are in transit from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican view of themselves, and a scaling down of their range and ambitions in the world. The diminution, even the implicit insult of the process, is painful. It prompts some insistent revisions in the creed. Where once equality of opportunity was enough (there seemed an immense river to drink from, why give out numbers?), the continent is sufficiently depleted to start a crisis in political philosophy. Who gets what? And why? Equality of opportunity competes with equality of result. Where once the able...
AMERICA--in the form of 51 men and 2 women--is being held hostage in Iran. The Defense Department decided that eight helicopters were enough and lost three men in the desert. Congress is spending $56 billion on what one politician has called "mass transit for missiles." And in Miami, Black and white people are fighting each other in the streets for jobs...
...Senate-House conference committee into approving $153.7 billion in defense spending for fiscal 1981, which begins Oct. 1 , or $5.8 billion more than the House had voted. To balance the increase, the conferees slashed $4.3 billion out of education and job-training programs, food stamps, aid to mass transit, assistance to help the poor pay fuel bills, and federal aid to cities. They also raised total spending by $1.5 billion, to $613.8 billion, which on paper would leave a hairline budget surplus of $500 million. (Actually, the recession is all but certain to throw the budget into a sizable deficit...
...things [social spending] that would prevent recession from getting out of hand." White House aides urged the House to vote down the budget resolution and send it back to conference with instructions to trim military spending and put the difference into job-training programs, food stamps and aid to transit and cities...
Councilors and residents pointed to rapid-transit passengers and derelicts as two of the main sources of trouble in the area...