Word: conducting
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Strengthen the "ethical rules of conduct" insociety by teaching moral standards on thenation's campuses, by strengthening communityservice programs, and by "forthrightly addressingethical challenges...
...notion that people possess certain inalienable rights, even in the conduct of their familial affairs, is dismissed as a "poetic" musing by this Supreme Court nominee. Thus, for instance, the Constitution--despite its prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment"--does not forbid the sterilization of prisoners...
...warned U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop last week in Washington before President Reagan's commission on the HIV epidemic. Citing reports of doctors and other health-care workers "who refuse to treat persons with AIDS," Koop delivered a stinging broadside against the medical profession. Said he: "The good conduct of the majority does not release us from facing the unprofessional conduct of a fearful and irrational minority...
...intrusion in matters bearing upon marriage, sexual activity and family life. In addition to providing a rationale for the court's pro-abortion decision, privacy has been invoked in arguments favoring gay rights. In a 1984 ruling that upheld the Navy's discharge of a petty officer for homosexual conduct, Bork aired the view that whatever the Supreme Court may have meant by privacy, it did not cover homosexual relations. Last year, a 5-to-4 court majority joined by Justice Powell also rejected the idea of a constitutional right to homosexual conduct...
...state than to contemplate fanaticism. Those whose politics is determined by consensus and compromise become hopelessly unsettled in the face of single-minded zeal. The tendency is then to mistake it for irrationality. Ronald Reagan once famously referred to a group of regimes that defy the rules of international conduct as the "strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Less than two years later it was discovered that Reagan not only had dealt with these Looney Tunes but, in the words of his former chief of staff, had been snookered...