Word: coded
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Many students point to a widespread need for spiritual stability in a relativistic world. The Christian groups, and their faith, provide a moral code and a base, they...
...some students, Christianity is the answer--a moral code which is comfortingly "exclusive in terms of faith choices," Fryling says. In the crises of the modern world, Fryling says, Christianity offers "a real dimension of hope...
This desire to celebrate life through food and drink unites the three women in Reardon's book, through their particular tastes vary. Meanwhile their individual stories cast faint reflections of life outside the kitchen, from Fisher's Hollywood of the 1940's to Child's "02138 zip code set" in '60s Cambridge, to Waters' present-day Berkeley...
Even without White House guidance from the top, some corporations are feeling enough pressure from below, sparked by advocacy groups, to put codes of their own into effect. Reebok's guidelines for its suppliers in Indonesia and elsewhere support the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. American employees of Nike conduct weekly inspections of suppliers' factories in Indonesia to check on working conditions. Such measures are not foolproof, but they represent a major effort to make a difference. Levi Strauss dealt with the question of labor rights by pulling out of China altogether in 1992; Timberland did likewise...
...that the workers have their dignity, and they'll only have that if they have the right to organize." The challenge is toughest in China, where the only legal organizer is the Communist Party, and workers can land in jail simply for complaining. "We can't have a code that requires American companies to break host country laws," insists a business lobbyist in Washington...