Word: sociallives
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...Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Phillips. Twenty years ago, the Nostradamus of Washington correctly predicted the emerging Republican majority. Now Phillips foresees a populist backlash to the greedfest of the Reagan '80s. A provocative analysis based on social science and a cyclical view of history...
Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
Around the Cabinet table, the new Secretary can be expected to provide calm, deliberate counsel. "He is totally at ease with power," says Marty Connors, executive director of the Southern Republican Exchange, a Birmingham think tank founded by Alexander. Equally important, Alexander and his wife are longtime social intimates of the Bushes who get along with the First Family on a first-name basis. Good choice, George...
Last week government officials attempted to calm emotions with a promise of unspecified increases in wages and improved social benefits. Morocco's ills, however, are not easily fixed. Under an austerity program drawn up by the badly indebted country, only 15,210 new jobs will be created next year -- meager pickings for the 350,000 young Moroccans who will enter the labor market...
...agents who burst into the Ravenite Social Club, a red brick Mob hangout in New York City's Little Italy, apparently surprised John Gotti. But true to his well-polished celebrity image, the alleged boss of the nation's largest and most vicious Mafia family quickly regained his composure. After he was pushed into a car in handcuffs, impeccably dressed as always (for this occasion, in a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a bright yellow scarf dangling rakishly from around his neck), the "Dapper Don" of tabloid fame grinned at reporters and dismissed his latest arrest with an airy...