Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that characterized the Reagan Administration. But the office is worthless unless it is occupied by someone who at least knows that the primary ethical concern of public officials should be scrupulously avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest. Gray probably knows, but he doesn't seem to care...
...that there's no racial and sexist insensitivity at Harvard. The University's reluctance to increase minority and women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences shows great callousness. And the University's divestment policy is further evidence of an administration that seems not to care. Perhaps instead of focusing on the kitchens, Harvard should take a look at its all-white Corporation...
...hard to know whether George Bush or his foreign policy advisors will take the time to read Bundy's book--and Bundy takes care not to offer them any easy answers. Indeed, Danger and Survival's last chapter is entitled, "Hope," and it ends with Bundy's point that "Our survival in the first 50 years of danger offers encouragement to renewed pursuit of truth, resolute practice of courage, and persistance in lively hope...
...also what happens when a new President takes office without an escape route from the fiscal cul-de-sac he has backed himself into. Candidate Bush's no-new-taxes vow means he will not be able to keep promises to propose spending for new programs in education, child care and the war on drugs unless he breaks other promises to protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that...
Voluntary national service has long been widely popular; in an early 1988 Gallup poll, 83% of those surveyed endorsed the concept. The problem is that given free choice, few 18-year-olds are likely to sign on at subsistence wages to empty bedpans or monitor naptime in day-care centers. Existing state and local programs that foster community-service apprenticeships have been unable to tap the wellsprings of middle-class idealism; in 1987 almost all the 7,000 ! young adults enrolled in such programs came from low-income families. The sad truth is that any major commitment to national service...