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Linguist List - Web Resource Listings (6456 words) |
 | Society for Caribbean Linguistics: The Society for Caribbean Linguistics (founded 1972) is a scholarly linguistics society dedicated to the study of language and linguistics in the Caribbean, and to the dissemination of both the theoretical and applied research of its members. |
| Society for Germanic Linguistics: Founded in 1968, it is the largest and most active organization in North America to serve the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic Linguistics and Philology. |
| Society for Mediaeval Languages and Linguistics: The Society for Mediaeval Languages and Linguistics was formed in 1998 to promote the linguistic study of languages known to have been written or spoken during the period AD 450-1450, and to provide a forum for those with an interest in and working in this field. |
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Great Society: Information from Answers.com (4979 words) |
| But some later Great Society initiatives were a result of social pressure from below, a response to the increasing militancy and intermittent violence of the fl struggle for equality and to the conviction of many liberals that only a major public effort to fight urban poverty could prevent continuing social disorder. |
| Other Great Society initiatives included the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation, the establishment of the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a dramatic expansion of federal housing subsidies, and environmental legislation to protect air and water. |
| The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969). |
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