Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when there is a "public interest" in intruding), to provide an opportunity for reply, to correct mistakes promptly, and to avoid irrelevant references to race, color and religion. The code also promises an end to the sort of deception that followed the Sheffield soccer tragedy, when journalists posed as social workers to interview grieving relatives...
...favor of a solution of all the problems of this society by reaching consensus by all the existing social and political forces in the country. There is always more than one solution for a given problem. The most important element of consensus is that it serves the majority of the people. Nothing should happen that would serve only a part of this society and not the majority...
...There are many steps along a career path, and every honest politician goes up a learning curve. In the beginning, I felt that Erich Honecker was a person worth emulating because of the way he combined economic achievement with social progress and the great attention he paid to youth affairs...
...This is exciting," he tells his architect, surveying the half-finished plaza he has conceived as the social center of the new community he is building. "Have you done the guardhouse? Let's go see the guardhouse." Singh is minutely attentive to aesthetics, even with interest costs and overhead running $30,000 a day. The guardhouse, it turns out, is coming along nicely, except for some ugly screens, which Singh promptly removes from the muntined French doors. He peers at a Government facility up the road: "Now we gotta get the Navy to straighten out the Stalag 13 look there...
...thing is that he never stopped being a Sikh, and he remains full of admiration for the social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...