Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of a rape, many women feel unsafe. They realize Cambridge isn't the safe little college town they thought," says Nadja B. Gould, a clinical worker and rape counselor at University Health Services...
...Many voters just thought of the opening of the Berlin Wall. They thought, 'O.K., we can get rid of arms because there's no danger,' " suggests Kurt Spillmann, a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. But the willingness of so many Swiss to vote, in effect, against the army indicates a disaffection that would once have been unimaginable...
Resentment against the army's influence over civil society almost certainly played a role. In a recent survey, 73% of those questioned said officers have a better chance of promotion in civilian life, 59% thought their boss was an officer, and 34% added that he continued to treat them like soldiers in the office. The cooler new military mood may also reflect the "feminization" of Switzerland. Women did not receive the vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says...
...soldiers were armed with automatic rifles and supplied with mortars. On their left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after its leader, the renegade former Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 41, staged the coup that nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino more than two years ago. The second set of letters stood simply for Soldiers of the Filipino People. Asked what they were up to, one marine...
...clunker compared with their cruiser Slava. An American gob, eyeing the Slava's conical superstructure, sniffed, "It makes a good target." But that was about as hostile an environment as could be found until the weather struck, an adversity that may actually have encouraged deeper thought...