Word: systems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keverian said the package also should be large enough to restore some programs already cut, such as those that provide services to young mentally retarded adults who are leaving the special education system...
...structures of the command and bureaucratic system are beginning to shake," Mladenov was quoted as saying. "The administrative idols of yesterday are going to pieces...
Geller and Huchra said the next step in determining the age of the universe is to construct a national observatory containing a computerized system that would scan the skies and measure the distances of remote galaxies...
...assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy were changed tomorrow, the underlying tensions and hatreds inherent in the system would still make it unacceptable...
...course has disappointed me. Where I expected a probing exploration of the themes and topics presented in the readings, I have found superficial discussions of poverty and the class system, and near-complete exclusion of gender or ethnicity. Although the literature we read is powerful, the social reflection that is supposed to accompany it is weak and ineffectual...