Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's club wants to have parties where men are invited? The men could come and socialize with the women when and only when the women choose to invite them. Hmmm, it sounds vaguely familiar. Do we want to answer elitism and sexism with more of the same? We thought progressive thinkers had long ago discarded the "separate but equal" doctrine for a more socially constructive integrationist view...
...last year, sitting in the seminar room where I worked, I thought of the NIMBY folder as the narrow-minded folder. All these people were protesting against what everyone agreed were necessities. They just didn't want to have to be personally involved. "Please solve society's problems," seemed to be the attitude. "Just do it where I don't have...
...raising has shaken one major abortion case right off the court's calendar. The case, Turnock v. Ragsdale, involved Illinois laws that would have required abortion clinics to be equipped like hospitals, an imposition so costly that many would have been forced to close their doors. Both sides thought the case was the one this term most likely to give the court an opportunity to repeal Roe. But after weeks of negotiation, a settlement was announced last week between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union, which was representing a doctor who had challenged the rules. The state dropped...
...triggered by emotionalism or peer pressure. He immersed himself in the history of Viet Nam and emerged convinced that America's leaders were dangerously ignorant about Southeast Asia. Did it strike him as odd that he claimed to be better informed than the President? "Yeah," says Rifkin, "I always thought that was weird." Then as now he rarely doubted that he was right...
...entire operation was conducted by Salvadoran soldiers. Only at the end, when the Green Berets ran out, did the U.S. forces become involved. The actual number of U.S. commandos sent to El Salvador was thought to be small, although a much larger force was positioned outside the country...